> In your previous mail you wrote: > > I have a question about RFC2472 - "IP Version 6 over PPP". The RFC talks > about the negotiation of the Interface-Identifier and specifies the > Interface-Identifier Configuration Option. In this case the upper 64 bits > are just fe80:: > > => yes, IPv6CP provides only configuration of link-local addresses > (for address/prefix/routing). > > It does not mention if there is any standard way to configure a > global/site-local prefix on a point-to-point link i.e. are there > configuration options to let one side tell the other about a global > prefix? > > => no, this is done by auto-configuration if one end is a router > or by still to be defined protocol (i.e. manual configurtion but > look at last interim meeting proceeding where this was discussed) > if both ends are router. If no end is router, you don't need > more than link-local address... > > Or is it just left upto the users at both ends to decide on a prefix > somehow and then configure it on each end? > > => this is the current standard solution for the router-to-router case. > > I'm sorry if there is an RFC about this that I missed... > > => RFC 2462 "IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration" > (note: on the router side, you can put the prefix configuration > in ipv6-up/ipv6-down scripts called when IPv6CP comes up or down. > This works very well, usually you even get a race between router > advertisement and solicitation so autoconf is always immediate). > > Regards > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PS: http://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng/html/minutes/ipng-meeting-may2001.txt > (search for Dialup Architecture, note this is my last attempt to find > an usefulness to DHCPv6 :-).
we're just about to suggest a couple of new DHCPv6 options for this purpose. http://www.dhcp.org/dhcpv6-23/draft-troan-dhcpv6-opt-prefix-delegation-00.txt /ot -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
