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Re: understanding IPv6


From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn () mork no>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2020 13:17:56 +0200

Daniel Sterling <sterling.daniel () gmail com> writes:

In all seriousness, I have been trying to understand IPv6 for a long
time, and the documentation that I read (again, admittedly not often
RFCs, but certainly Wikipedia, linux distro docs, etc) never mentioned
DHCP PD, or at least never mentioned it as something important for how
end-users would use IPv6.

Sorry, but I have some problems understanding this. AFAICT, you can't
read anything about configuring IPv6 access without seeing DHCPv6-PD
mentioned.

You referred to how OpenWrt "does it out of the box" for example.  So
just for fun, I tried to follow the most natural route from
https://openwrt.org to their IPv6 documentation for end users, which is
3 clicks from the front page to
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/start
where the first bullet point you see under "Native IPv6 connection" is
  * Automatic bootstrap from SLAAC, stateless DHCPv6, stateful DHCPv6,
    DHCPv6-PD and any combination



Bjørn





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