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Re: [v6ops] DHCPv6/SLAAC Interaction Operational Guidance-//RE: new draft: draft-liu-v6ops-dhcpv6-slaac-guidance

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Thu, 09 January 2014 21:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] DHCPv6/SLAAC Interaction Operational Guidance-//RE: new draft: draft-liu-v6ops-dhcpv6-slaac-guidance
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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 07:11:04PM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 09/01/2014 18:44, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > what else would it do?
> > 
> > I get zero hits on the word "netmask" in RFC3315. DHCPv6 will hand out
> > addresses, which in IPv6 implicitly is a /128?
> 
> It's context / configuration dependent.  If the interface already has an
> address+netmask configured which contains the address received from DHCP,
> then local connectivity will work just fine.

"If I add routing using some other way it does not matter that DHCPv6
will not add it".  True.  And, how exactly is this relevant to the 
fact that DHCPv6 *alone* will not get you anywhere today?

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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