Brian suggestion is what we've seen in all the CPE devices we've had at the UNH-IOL last two CE Router Events. I haven't seen a CPE/SOHO router act as a relay agent.
Regards, Tim On May 27, 2011, at 8:07 AM, Brian Haberman wrote: > On 5/26/11 5:46 PM, Manfredi, Albert E wrote: >> Thomas Narten wrote: >> >>> Let me ask a question. In IPv4, for typical SOHO routers, do they >>> support DHCP relay agent functionality? (My guess is no.) >>> >>> And what about configuring it? It is *not* plug and play, zeroconf >>> magic... >> >> Since they are typically NAPTs, I'd say no. They are local DHCP >> servers for the private address space behind them only. >> >> In IPv6, what will the "typical SOHO router" look like, though? Same >> NAT functionality as IPv4? And if not, is there an automatic way of >> configuring this SOHO router for any possible DHCP relay function? > > What about a situation where rather than using DHCP relay, a router uses > DHCP Prefix Delegation to get a prefix that is then used in the home > network? There is no need for the relay functionality and the CPE is > still plug-and-play. > > Regards, > Brian > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
