On 19/02/2009, at 9:42 AM, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
2) Some end-node box with a IPv6 stack from "Joe's Software Emporium and Bait-n-Tackle" sees an RA packet, and concludes that since RA and DHCPv6 are mutually exclusive, to ignore any DHCPv6 packets it sees, and hilarity ensues.
They are not mutually exclusive, DHCPv6 *requires* RA.
In your previous Nanog message you said:
DHCPv6 can operate without RA now.
Please make up your mind.
You are right, sorry for any confusion, I will clarify my comments. DHCPv6 can operate without RA, but you cannot get default route information right now. I believe there is a draft to add this option though. In most networks this is not practical, as many hosts with a DHCPv6 stack will send DHCPv6 requests only when RA messages tell them to us a DHCPv6 server. The DHCPv6 protocol does not require RA, however practical implementation of DHCPv6 for address assignment does. Better? :-) -- Nathan Ward