> More to the point, if you are in a shop that has decided to allocate > addresses by DHCP, calculating an address via autoconfiguration is > the wrong answer. Not because it is politically correct or otherwise, > but because it is the policy of the network, and the IETF doesn't get > to decide that.
We went through that before. The proper way for a network to indicate that nodes should not use auto-conf is simply to not advertise prefixes with the auto-conf bit set. If the auto-conf bit is set, then hosts may obviously auto-configure addresses. In fact, it would be good to be a bit more specific about the expected behavior when both auto-conf and DHCP are allowed (both M and A bits). Is the host expected to auto-allocate an address and then confirm it through DHCP? Does it use the union of DHCP and auto-config? What about privacy addresses? -- Christian Huitema -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
