[186067] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHCPv6 PD & Routing Questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Baldur Norddahl)
Wed Nov 25 05:17:45 2015
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:17:41 +0100
From: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 25 November 2015 at 06:23, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> > You might think that would be obvious, but exactly zero (0) commercial
> > available CPEs has implemented it like that.
> >
> > THAT means that if you expect the community to do it like this, you do in
> > fact need to write it in a RFC.
>
> Or you could write it as you think it is needed.
>
>
The homenet working group just published a RFC with a different solution.
The size hint is garbage today because every client will put garbage in it
and most servers will ignore it (including isc-dhcp IIRC). And likely it
will stay that way forever. The homenet solution is different, but it
reduces the need for a size hint.
Regards,
Baldur
