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Re: router behaviour with prefixes longer than /64

Ray Hunter <v6ops@globis.net> Sun, 16 March 2014 12:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: router behaviour with prefixes longer than /64
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> Erik Nordmark <mailto:nordmark@acm.org>
> 14 March 2014 17:27
>
> Ray,
> what do you see as missing?
>
> RFC 4861 allows for PIO with L=1 for any prefix length.
> Thus the on-link determination is orthogonal to whether DHCPv6 or 
> SLAAC is used for address assignment.
>
> Thanks,
>    Erik
There are those who would like to be able to ensure proper DHCP 
operation without RA. e.g. 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-droms-dhc-dhcpv6-default-router-00

But it ain't going to happen.

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Regards,
RayH

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