[148525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How are you doing DHCPv6 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brzozowski, John)
Tue Jan 17 19:28:54 2012
From: "Brzozowski, John" <John_Brzozowski@Cable.Comcast.com>
To: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:27:48 +0000
In-Reply-To: <3957a03c-881d-46aa-a26a-862d1f7dfa58@zimbra.network1.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The draft does help you, it is a BCP and does not specify a standard. It
outlines some BCPs that are usable today. I believe I tested and verified
that what I outlined works with the ISC DHCPv6 server. It also works with
other DHCPv6 servers as well.
John
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On 1/17/12 6:19 PM, "Randy Carpenter" <rcarpen@network1.net> wrote:
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>> You might want to give this a read:
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>> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-redundancy-consider-02.txt
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>That doesn't really help us if we want to deploy before that draft
>becomes a standard.
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>Are there any DHCPv6 servers currently that actually function in a
>fashion that is suitable for service providers?
>
>-Randy
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@network1.net>
>> Sent: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 5:4 PM
>> To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
>> CC:
>> Subject: How are you doing DHCPv6 ?
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>> I am wondering how people out there are using DHCPv6 to handle
>> assigning prefixes to end users.
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>> We have a requirement for it to be a redundant server that is
>> centrally located. DHCPv6 will be relayed from each customer access
>> segment.
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>> We have been looking at using ISC dhcpd, as that is what we use for
>> v4. However, it currently does not support any redundancy. It also
>> does not do very much useful logging for DHCPv6 requests. Certainly
>> not enough to keep track of users and devices.
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>> So, my questions are:
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>> How are you doing DHCPv6 with Prefix Delegation?
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>> What software are you using?
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>> When DHCPv6 with Prefix Delegation seems to be about the only way to
>> deploy IPv6 to end users in a generic device-agnostic fashion, I am
>> wondering why it is so difficult to find a working solution.
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>> thanks,
>> -Randy
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>> --
>> | Randy Carpenter
>> | Vice President - IT Services
>> | Red Hat Certified Engineer
>> | First Network Group, Inc.
>> | (800)578-6381, Opt. 1
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