Not even when the M and O bits in the Router Advertisement message are configured to indicate a combination of stateless and stateful autoconfiguration such that DHCPv6 provides options (e.g., SIP server option) but not an actual address?
-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Dupont [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:55 AM
To: NOISETTE Yoann FTRD/DMI/CAE
Cc: 'Yamasaki Toshi'; Lilian Fernandes; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PPP and Global Addresses
In your previous mail you wrote:
"... The creation and management of that pool is
beyond the scope of this document, but it can be supposed that
minimalistically a Delegating Router will be statically configured
with a fixed pool."
What I meant is that the pool used by the Delegating router, in which it
takes the prefix it delegates to Requesting routers, could be set using the
DHCPv6 option for prefix delegation. Actually, only static (I understand
"manual") configuration is considered.
=> this notion of static (DHCP terminology) / manual (common terminology)
allocation is more important than one can believe. The difference between
BOOTP and DHCP is the introduction of the dynamic (DHCP terminology)
allocation. My main concern about DHCPv6 is the dynamic allocation
makes sense only for a scarce resource: this is the case for IPv4
addresses but definitively *not* for IPv6 addresses... So DHCPv6 is
basically useless (and in the real world not used at all :-).
Regards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
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]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
