turning on comcast v6

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Mon Jan 6 18:37:39 UTC 2014


On 01/04/2014 05:42 AM, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 2:12 AM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us> wrote:
>
>>
>>> If you did add default route to DHCPv6, what is then supposed to happen to
>>> the other routes, that the client might discover?
>>>
>>
>> You would configure the client not to do RS, and to ignore any RAs that it
>> receives. Simple.
>>
>>
> If you are going to modify the client, you can use any method you like,

No, I can't, because the method I would like to use is not in the spec.

> including having the client simply use fe80:: or prefix:: as default
> gateway.
>
> You want a secure way to configure the clients. That sounds more like
> Secure NDP (SEND) than it sounds like DHCPv6 with default gateway.

Thank you for the textbook illustration of the "anything but DHCP!" 
mindset I was referring to earlier.

Doug





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