[168029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Mon Jan 6 13:37:51 2014
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:37:39 -0800
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAPkb-7AzjLgVipVLuvkC3XAFxS5sJrwcv5Kh4ozZowzmsp5F5g@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 01/04/2014 05:42 AM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
>
>>
>>> If you did add default route to DHCPv6, what is then supposed to happen to
>>> the other routes, that the client might discover?
>>>
>>
>> You would configure the client not to do RS, and to ignore any RAs that it
>> receives. Simple.
>>
>>
> If you are going to modify the client, you can use any method you like,
No, I can't, because the method I would like to use is not in the spec.
> including having the client simply use fe80:: or prefix:: as default
> gateway.
>
> You want a secure way to configure the clients. That sounds more like
> Secure NDP (SEND) than it sounds like DHCPv6 with default gateway.
Thank you for the textbook illustration of the "anything but DHCP!"
mindset I was referring to earlier.
Doug
