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Re: [homenet] regarding recursive DHCPv6-PD

Andrew McGregor <andrewmcgr@gmail.com> Wed, 07 November 2012 16:05 UTC

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Nice.  Yes, that's a reasonable way to do that.

Recursive PD seems to inherently need some administrative input.  BTW, our switch implementation can do either.

Andrew

On 7/11/2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:

> Clarifying my remarks at the mic...
> 
> Using PD in a home network isn't hard.  Use a single delegating router; most obvious choice is the device that received the prefix from the external source.
> 
> Every other router acts as a requesting router, and asks for a single /64 for each of its interfaces from the delegating router.
> 
> draft-baker-homenet-prefix-assignment-01 has more details.  Read it before you flame me.
> 
> *Recursive* PD is, indeed, harder.  Don't do it.
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> - Ralph
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