Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

[Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>]

On 22/10/2009 11:30, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:20:11PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if
> > multiple routers are sending the same preference level, but presumably
> > that would not happen in a well-tended network.
>
>         I point you to a fairly common Internet architecture artifact,
>         the exchange point...  dozens of routers sharing a common
>         media for peering exchange.

Bill, could you explain how or why ra or dhcp or dhcpv6 have any relevance 
to an IXP?  Being one of these "artefact" operators - and clearly stuck 
with a very small dinosaur brain - I am having some trouble understanding 
the point you're attempting to make here.

Nick