Re: [homenet] draft-baker-homenet-prefix-assignment

[Ole Troan <[e-mail]>]

Michael,

> Is there some reason that the flooding mechanism can't distribute the
> list of edge CPE routers, and then DHCPv6 can be used in unicast
> request/reply to ask those CPE routers for things.
> 
> (I would even wonder if the CPE routers shouldn't be identified by their
> ULA rather than self-identifying by the address in the subnet the deal with)
> 
> This is how I imagined the DHCPv6 PD mechanism working before
> draft-chakrabarti-homenet-prefix-alloc-01 was written, which imagined a
> strict hierarchal tree.

that's how I imagined also.
DHCP PD on the edges. flooding protocol between all the internal routers. then hosts use RA/DHCP for addresses / other configurations to their onlink routers.

cheers,
Ole