[141577] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu Jun 9 08:19:53 2011
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:19:45 +0200 (CEST)
To: cra@WPI.EDU
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <20110609120923.GW25373@angus.ind.WPI.EDU>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > You can actually use DHCPv6 to assign addresses to hosts dynamically
> > on longer than /64 networks.
> >
> > However, you may have to go to some effort to add DHCPv6 support to
> > those hosts first.
>
> Also, there is no prefix-length (or default router) option in DHCPv6,
> so you have to configure the Router Advertisements with the longer
> prefix length in this case.
It is perfectly possible to use RA *only* for the default router, and
not announce any prefix at all. This implies a link-local next hop.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
