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Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses
From: Ray Soucy <rps () maine edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 08:12:36 -0400
The design of IPv6 is that DHCPv6 and RA work together. This is why there is no method to express the default gateway using DHCPv6, that task is handled by the RA. I suppose you could run DHCPv6 on a subnet to give hosts addresses but never give them a default gateway, but that would be a little useless no? Please stop confusing people about DHCPv6. There is already enough misinformation out there. It's starting to feel like Fox News here, next there will be another post citing yours saying "experts on NANOG have said that DHCPv6 doesn't require RA" and make users spend hours looking for how to set the gateway address. On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net> wrote:
On 10/21/2010 8:39 PM, Ray Soucy wrote:How so? We still have RA (with a high priority) that's the only way DHCPv6 works. I guess there is a lot of misunderstanding about how DHCPv6 works, even among the experts...Actually, the last I checked, there are implementation of DHCPv6 without RA. Jack
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Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses Owen DeLong (Oct 23)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 24)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 24)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses Jack Bates (Oct 24)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses Leo Bicknell (Oct 24)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 24)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 24)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 24)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses Leo Bicknell (Oct 24)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ??? Unique local addresses Owen DeLong (Oct 24)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses Ray Soucy (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses Jack Bates (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 ? Unique local addresses Daniel Roesen (Oct 22)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses Owen DeLong (Oct 21)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 21)
- Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses Owen DeLong (Oct 21)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 21)
- RE: IPv6 fc00::/7 - Unique local addresses George Bonser (Oct 21)