[96058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHCPv6, was: Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Apr 15 15:37:13 2007
In-Reply-To: <3D457C9B-38C4-4745-AA5D-0F85EA05319B@muada.com>
Cc: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:35:46 -0400
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 15-Apr-2007, at 06:38, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> With IPv6, there's of course still manual configuration, but PPP is
> out because it can't negotiate IPv6 addresses.
I've heard you say this a few times now, but I am also told by
various people in various places that they have succeeded in getting
IPv6 addresses assigned using PPPoE. Colour me confused.
Does RFC 2472 have some practical limitations in the real world that
I haven't noticed? Or is the problem a simple matter of implementation?
Joe
