IPv6 fc00::/7 — Unique local addresses

Thu Oct 21 19:43:00 UTC 2010

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 14:19 -0400, Ray Soucy wrote:

> We've decided to disable SLAAC (State-Less Address Auto-Configuration)
> on almost all our IPv6 networks and use DHCPv6 exclusively.  This
> allows us to only respond with DHCPv6 to the hosts we want to get an
> IPv6 address instead of enabling it network-wide and crossing your
> fingers.  The disadvantage here is that DHCPv6 client support is still
> limited (OS X has none for example).   The argument is that IPv6 isn't
> mission critical yet, so we're waiting to see if vendors will come
> around and include DHCPv6 client support in the future.
> 

Ray,
how do you convey the default-router information with DHCPv6 only. AFAIK
there is no such field in DHCPv6...

Luca.