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Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Aug 3 04:30:42 2011

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 10:30:04 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <20110803.100439.74745741.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> - Dynamic address: Customer connects PC (defaults to DHCP) or router/ 
> firewall with DHCP for the WAN interface plus NAT for the LAN side. 
> Necessary configuration: Small to none.

DHCP doesn't imply dynamic address. It implies customer doesn't have to 
configure an address him/herself. DHCP can very well always hand out the 
same address every time.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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