Re: IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

Fri Oct 22 12:12:36 UTC 2010

The design of IPv6 is that DHCPv6 and RA work together.  This is why
there is no method to express the default gateway using DHCPv6, that
task is handled by the RA.  I suppose you could run DHCPv6 on a subnet
to give hosts addresses but never give them a default gateway, but
that would be a little useless no?

Please stop confusing people about DHCPv6.  There is already enough
misinformation out there.

It's starting to feel like Fox News here, next there will be another
post citing yours saying "experts on NANOG have said that DHCPv6
doesn't require RA" and make users spend hours looking for how to set
the gateway address.

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jack Bates <jbates at brightok.net> wrote:
> On 10/21/2010 8:39 PM, Ray Soucy wrote:
>>
>> How so? We still have RA (with a high priority) that's the only way
>> DHCPv6 works.  I guess there is a lot of misunderstanding about how
>> DHCPv6 works, even among the experts...
>
> Actually, the last I checked, there are implementation of DHCPv6 without RA.
>
>
> Jack
>
>

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