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Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems
From: sthaug () nethelp no
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:43:46 +0100 (CET)
I suppose you can individually configure every host to get itself temporary addresses from RA announcements. This isn't usually a good default configuration, but OS implementation already seems to be inconsistent on the default configuration here. So we're back to the IPv4 dark ages where you have to walk around to all the devices to effect changes in policy (beyond prefix field contents).I'm not sure, but you seem to be implying that you need to configure hosts to tell them to use RA or DHCPv6 to get addresses. My apologies if this is not your intention. RA messages are always going to be sent by routers and received by hosts, even if DHCPv6 is being used for address assignment.
This does not seem to be generally true: - For the routers I am most familiar with (Juniper M/MX), you need to explicitly turn on router advertisement to make the router perform this. I.e. it is perfectly possible to have an interface with an IPv6 address which does *not* send RAs. - For the operating system I am most familiar with (FreeBSD), RAs are *not* accepted by default if the interface in question is configured with a static IPv6 address. Both of these choices seem perfectly reasonable to me. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug () nethelp no
Current thread:
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)], (continued)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] David W. Hankins (Feb 05)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Bjørn Mork (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Matthew Kaufman (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems sthaug (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Jack Bates (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems David W. Hankins (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Jack Bates (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems David W. Hankins (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Nathan Ward (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems sthaug (Feb 07)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Mikael Abrahamsson (Feb 07)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 08)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems David W. Hankins (Feb 07)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 09)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems Owen DeLong (Feb 06)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 07)
- RE: v6 & DSL / Cable modems TJ (Feb 07)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems James R. Cutler (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] David W. Hankins (Feb 06)
- Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)] Ricky Beam (Feb 05)