Well...I have to respectfully disagree about the reasoning behind the
decision. There is no IPv6 default router option in DHCPv6 because
that information is given to hosts in RAs. The assumption is that,
if there is a router willing to act as a default router on a link,
it's presence will be announced through RAs. A host that receives no
RAs can infer that there is no default router (which is a deployment
scenario the dhc WG certainly understands and can imagine
encountering in practice); if the host receives configuration from
DHCPv6 in this scenario, there is no need for a default router option.
- Ralph
On Sep 18, 2007, at Sep 18, 2007,9:18 AM, Leino, Tammy wrote:
I had this same discussion with the DHCP working group a few weeks
back.
The end result was that there should always be an IPv6 router on-link
configured to transmit RAs. They could not fathom why an IPv6 network
would not have an IPv6 router on-link. That is why there is
intentionally no DHCPv6 option for distributing the gateway.
Best Regards,
Tammy
-----Original Message-----
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:11 AM
To: Bill Manning
Cc: ipv6@ietf.org
Subject: Re: DHCPv6 - does it have gateway option
On 18-sep-2007, at 8:02, Bill Manning wrote:
presume the absense of a router.
It almost seems like the DHCPv6 designers did...
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