[143225] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Wed Aug 3 05:04:08 2011
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
To: swmike@swm.pp.se
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1108031028420.4709@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > - 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.
Absolutely, and in our network it does - in most cases. However, ensuring
that DHCP hands out a *real* static address every time, in the face of non
SP controlled CPEs, changing MAC addresses etc is non-trivial.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
