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

Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 09 January 2014 18:44 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
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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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On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> Can you provide a reference for the assumption that the host will define 
> the netmask to be /128 if it receives an address assignment from DHCPv6 
> without a specific subnet mask assignment via RA?

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?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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