Re: [mif] #8: absent MAC address of default route?

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#8: absent MAC address of default route?


Comment (by alexandru.petrescu@…):

 In a private discussion with draft author 1aug2012 I am told that the MAC
 address should maybe be an option to the nexthop.  In order to achieve
 that, one would look at a link layer address option for DHCPv6 as
 specified elsewhere.  I believe it may be in draft-halwasia-dhc-dhcpv6
 -hardware-addr-opt-01 of March 2012.

 If I were to design an extension with the MAC address I think I would try
 to make it as short as possible, because my use case is for M2M Gateway.
 For example, the link-layer address option of ND uses only two bytes
 (type, length) of overhead, compared to 6 bytes of draft-halwasia.  This
 overhead could be reduced to 0 if the link-layer address option length
 were implied by the option-len field of the Next Hop Option of draft-ietf-
 mif-dhcpv6-route-option-04.

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 Reporter:               |       Owner:  draft-ietf-mif-dhcpv6-route-
  alexandru.petrescu@…   |  option@…
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:
Component:  dhcpv6       |     Version:
  -route-option          |  Resolution:
 Severity:  In WG Last   |
  Call                   |
 Keywords:               |
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