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Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison-00.txt (fwd)

Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no> Wed, 18 December 2013 23:10 UTC

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* Nick Hilliard

> The single protocol barrier which stops me in theory from being able
> to completely remove RAs from my networks is dhcpv6 default gateway
> option.
> 
> I understand that there are several other things that RA also
> handles, but defgw is sine qua non.  I can live with /64 + 1500mtu
> everywhere, but it's not possible to have a functional
> auto-configured network without a default gateway option.

Hi Nick,

If you want (on-link) /64 routes to be signaled by DHCPv6 you need
another (currently nonexistent, ttbomk) option for that as well. IA_NA
leases are single address and do not imply any on-link prefixes. See RFC
5942 section 5.

Tore

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