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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 23:47 UTC

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

> On Dec 18, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
>  wrote:
> 
>> If you want (on-link) /64 routes to be signaled by DHCPv6 you need
>> another (currently nonexistent, ttbomk) option for that as well.
> 
> Does that translate to "what is my prefix length" or some variation on that theme?

Yes. The only way to signal an on-link prefix to hosts is the Prefix
Information Option in RA (with L=1), as far as I know. So if Nick wants
"/64 everywhere", DHCPv6 isn't sufficient, even if it did include the
default gateway option he wanted.

Tore

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