[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Fred/all,
The former subject line became far too unwieldy, and the subject of IPv6
referred to in the attached exchange is of interest.
IPv6 PD is between two routers, not a router and an end host. Using ISP parlance, the delegating router is the ISP PE (delegating) router and the requesting router is the CE router.
The abstract of RFC 3769 which defines the IPv6 PD requirements says: "This
document describes requirements for how IPv6 address prefixes
should be delegated to an IPv6 subscriber's network (or "site")." Section 1 echoes this
point. It's logical to infer from Section 4 that the CPE is the requesting router (not host): "A
rogue PE can issue bogus prefixes to a requesting router."
Given the way RFC 3633 is written, there is reason to pre-suppose that the
client will behave as a router. In DHCPv6 PD, the ISP router that serves as the
DHCPv6 server is the delegating router. The CPE that serves as the DHCPv6
client is the requesting router (Section 3). Section 5.1 illustrates an example
architecture wherein this is shown. The point is also made that the requesting
router subnets whatever prefixes are delegated to it and assigns those longer
prefixes to links within the subscriber network.
a. There has neither ever been nor is there now a standard defining ICMPv6 PD.
There are however at least three expired drafts (of which I am aware) on the
subject:
i) draft-haberman-ipngwg-auto-prefix-02.txt
ii) draft-bykim-ipv6-hpd-01.txt
iii) draft-arunt-prefix-delegation-using-icmpv6-00.txt
Doing it with Mobile IPv6:
draft-ietf-nemo-prefix-delegation-00 August 2005.
Alex
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