Toshi, Is DHCPv6 (configuration-only or "stateless" DHCPv6) a viable option for host configuration - are there now or will there be hosts with DHCPv6 for those home networks where the "O" bit is set?
- Ralph At 11:33 AM 5/20/2002 +0900, Toshi Yamasaki wrote: >Hi, Juha!! > >Yes, this is one of the most important but difficult issues to solve. I >guess you agree that one or fewer mechanisms are better to achieve a real >autoconfiguration :-) > >In my scenario for fixed access services like DSL or FTTH, I assume: > >- PE(NAS) -> CPE(Customer's Router) : stateful mechanism like DHCPv6 >- CPE -> HOSTs : stateless mechanism (itojun-thaler?) or stateful >mechanism(DHCPv6?), according to "O" bit of RA > >IMO, "mobility and seemlessness" is the key to select any auto-configuration >mechanisms for HOSTs so that HOSTs don't have to prepare every differnt >mechanism to be used at home, office, hotspot, mobile enviroment and so on. > >---Toshi > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 4:02 AM >Subject: RE: new revision ofcellular host draft > > >Hi, Toshi! > >This is unfortunately an issue we could not give 'an exact answer' in our >draft. At least these possibilitites (I'm not commenting anything on their >pros and cons) exist at the moment: > >- use of stateless DNS discovery > >- use of stateful DNS discovery (i.e. a DHCPv6-based mechanism) > >- use a PPP based mechanism in PDP context activation (this kind of >mechanism is existing / in use for IPv4: RFC1877) > > (these three are not in 'RFC-level' yet...) > >- manual configuration in the terminal, i.e. typing the DNS server address >manually (which is not very pleasant...) > >- receiving the configuration information OTA, i.e. using SMS to configure >that information > >BR, >-Juha W.- > >-----Original Message----- >From: ext Toshi Yamasaki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: 17 May, 2002 20:14 >To: Hesham Soliman (ERA) >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: new revision ofcellular host draft > > >Just a quick question. How cellular hosts discover DNS cache servers' >addresses? > > > Hi all, > > > > I have submitted a new revision of the draft > > today. Until it is pulished by the IETF you > > can find it at > > http://standards.ericsson.net/Hesham/draft-ietf-ipv6-cellular-host-02.txt > > > > We hope that this draft will be ready for WG last call > > when it appears on the IETF pages. > > > > Thanks > > Hesham > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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] > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >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] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >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] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
