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Re: [Autoconf] Using DHCPv6 without link-local? Support only EUI-64interfaces?

Henning Rogge <henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> Wed, 04 August 2010 06:29 UTC

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To: Teco Boot <teco@inf-net.nl>
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Subject: Re: [Autoconf] Using DHCPv6 without link-local? Support only EUI-64interfaces?
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On Wed August 4 2010 08:21:11 Teco Boot wrote:
> Op 3 aug 2010, om 10:28 heeft Ulrich Herberg het volgende geschreven:
> > Hi Henning,
> > 
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Henning Rogge
> > 
> > <henning.rogge@fkie.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> is there a reason why we cannot place an DHCPv6-relay on every node for
> >> its neighbors ? Each node requesting an address/prefix will send out an
> >> IP datagram with an anycast destination an a linklocal source, which
> >> will be forwarded by its neighbors (with a unicast) to the
> >> DHCPv6-server.
> > 
> > Sure, that works. DHCP clients would typically send their messages to
> > the All_DHCP_Relay_Agents_and_Servers multicast address. However, that
> > necessitates the use of a unicast routing protocol, because the relay
> > has to have a route towards the DHCP server. The question is, do we
> > want to depend on that? I think we should also have a running autoconf
> > mechanism in cases when there is no unicast routing protocol in place.
> 
> This is the 2b scenario.
> A problem is that all neighbors relay the DHCP request. In a dense network,
> (to) many neighbors will relay. One can think of a backpressure mechanism.

> Another problem is the discovery of the DHCP server(s). Easy to solve,
> solutions are around (BRDP is just one of them). But in many solutions,
> the MANET protocol is adjusted for service discovery support. (BRDP is not
> a MANET protocol, it is an RA extension).
Does a DHCP-reply from a relay contain the address of the DHCP-server ?

> I don't think the need for a routing protocol for forwarding packages is a
> problem. There are no functional MANETs without.
I agree with this.

Henning Rogge
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