On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:35:50 +0200 Hannes Frederic Sowa <han...@mailcolloid.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > > Web portals work fine, and honestly, it's not like you need to switch > > subnets, either. PPPoE/A implementations work great, as they are already > > designed to utilize radius backends to quickly alter static/dynamic on a > > session. For bridging setups, you have a variety of implementations and it > > becomes messier. Cisco, while maintaining RBE did away with the concept of > > proxy-nd, and didn't provide a mechanism for dynamically allocating the > > prefixes to the unnumbered interface. If you use dslam level controls, > > you'll most likely being using DHCPv6 TA addressing with PD on top of it, > > which works well. Most of which can support quick static/dynamic > > capabilities as it does with v4. > > Thanks. I will have a deeper look in the standards. This sounds like a > viable solution to me. Albeit, I wonder if there is a drive for the > big ISPs to implement such features. > Potentially it's a value add that small ISPs can use to distinguish their basic packet transport services from their larger competitors.