RE: [dhcwg] Deafult Router information for DHCPv6

"Bound, Jim" <jim.bound@hp.com> Sat, 22 May 2004 04:06 UTC

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Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Deafult Router information for DHCPv6
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 23:41:28 -0400
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From: "Bound, Jim" <jim.bound@hp.com>
To: "Bound, Jim" <jim.bound@hp.com>, Cristian Cadar <Cristian.Cadar@netlab.nec.de>, dhcwg@ietf.org
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whoops... "I cannot see any reason........." is what was meant in last
sentence. 
/jim 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcwg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:dhcwg-admin@ietf.org] On 
> Behalf Of Bound, Jim
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 11:08 PM
> To: Cristian Cadar; dhcwg@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Deafult Router information for DHCPv6
> 
> Christian,
> 
> I have been down this patha and I cannot see a good case for 
> this to be in DHCPv6.  I concur with Eric and Bernie.  The 
> entire conversion of routes on a link should come from ND RA. 
>  Once the edge link routers have the prefixes it is automatic 
> for the hosts.  I can see any good reason to add state to the 
> IPv6 network architecture for route propogation?  
> 
> thanks
> /jim 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dhcwg-admin@ietf.org [mailto:dhcwg-admin@ietf.org] On 
> Behalf Of 
> > Cristian Cadar
> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 4:50 AM
> > To: dhcwg@ietf.org
> > Subject: [dhcwg] Deafult Router information for DHCPv6
> > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I know that this issue was already discussed on the list but I ran 
> > into a problem which I would like to clarify here.
> > Seemingly the only way for getting the default router 
> information is 
> > to make use of the RA. So when I'm using
> > dhcpv6 and want get the default router information is it a 
> MUST to use 
> > the RA for this pourpose? I could not find any statement in 
> any of the 
> > RFC/drafts saying that.
> > I mean for the time being I cannot see any other possibility.
> > There might be scenarios where the use of RA is not desired and 
> > prefering to have a dhcpv6 option carrying this information 
> along. If 
> > the use of RA is not a MUST I think we need a new option.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Cristian
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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