>>>>> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:20:21 +0300, >>>>> "EricLKlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> In reviewing this document one question comes to mind from my own personal > experience with IPv4 network and it is related to "zero touch provisioning". > I realize that this is for stateless provisioning, but I still could not see > where this would fall other than here. > Background: > Under the standard "zero touch provisioning" situation the network > management system (NMS) assigns an IP address to the Provider Edge (PE) > router port. When the Customer Edge (CE) router is connected for the first > time and then powered up it "sees" the IP address of the other end of the > link and assigns itself the next higher one. So it looks like: > (Provider Edge router) AAAA::0001 ---- (Customer Edge router) AAAA::0002 > Once this IP address is assigned and registering on the network the specific > configuration required based on the services purchased are uploaded into the > router and the new configuration and security are applied. > Question: > Given that this does not include a DHCP server (either v4 or v6) but > requires explicit IP assignment from the NMS, how would this work given this > draft? I'm not sure if this question even has any relationship with rfc2462bis...if it is enough for the CE to know (one of) the PE's address in order to assign a similar address (perhaps an address with the same prefix and a slightly different interface ID) using its own API (like the "ifconfig" command of UNIX-like systems), then the CE can (theoretically) use: - inverse neighbor discovery (RFC3122), or - ICMPv6 name lookups (draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-name-lookups-10.txt) JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s. right now, I don't think this issue (if we need to call it an issue) is a show-stopper to advance rfc2462bis. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------