Re: [dhcwg] Prefix length option for Dhcpv6

sthaug@nethelp.no Tue, 01 March 2011 17:18 UTC

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>   This concern has been raised before and was the base for this draft.
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-droms-dhc-dhcpv6-default-router-00

However, this draft is expired, and is presumably going nowhere.
Meanwhile, people are *still* asking for it. The demand is not going
to disappear.

Personally, I can live with DHCPv6 IA_PD and link-local addresses on
the link between CPE and BRAS, and default gateway supplied by RA. But
I don't have to like it. I would turn off RA completely if I could.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no