Re: [v6ops] Stateful SLAAC (draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host)

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Sat, 11 November 2017 03:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Stateful SLAAC (draft-ietf-v6ops-unique-ipv6-prefix-per-host)
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On 11/10/2017 11:45 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> The issue is that if you have allocated a prefix for a host and then you reboot the router, either you retain the allocation in stable storage, or you don't.   If you don't, how do you make sure that the host doesn't get renumbered?
> 
> That's the sense in which this is stateful, whereas SLAAC by itself is not.   It's not really SLAAC that's stateful—it's the mapping between the link-local SLAAC address and the prefix that's assigned to the host.

If the SLAAC router needs to keep that state, why do you say that it is
not SLAAC that is stateful? Whose state is that, then?

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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