af300...@gmail.com wrote: > On May 6, 2009 8:56am, John Nielsen <li...@jnielsen.net> wrote: >> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 10:39:24 am Odhiambo $B%o%7%s%H%s(B wrote: > > >> Is there a reason you need to control the addresses used by your clients > >> (other than the prefix)? I set up IPv6 on my LAN and while I have DHCPd > >> running on the router for IPv4 addresses rtadvd is all I needed for IPv6. > >> Clients assign themselves addresses based on the network prefix they > >> learn from route solicitation and their own MAC address. That's supposed > >> to be one of the "reduced administration" benefits of the new > >> protocol. :) > > > Thanks for reminding me of the flow in which this happens. Seems like I, > at sometime, got the idea that it was the router that dished back a > unique IP based on clients MAC and so forth. However, it seems to me now > that the router was only supposed to dish out the prefix, ie network id, > and the client would take that prefix and generate a unique IP based on > its MAC.
Have a peruse of this RFC (stateless autoconfig): http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4862.txt Steve _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
