On 8/3/11 10:00 AM, "Philip Homburg" <[email protected]> wrote:

>In your letter dated Wed, 3 Aug 2011 08:48:09 +0200 you wrote:
>>what happens if you have multiple border routers? a downstream =
>>requesting router can only use one DHCP server, and there isn't as far =
>>as I know any protocol mechanism for multiple DHCP servers to =
>>synchronize and exchange information between themselves.
[jjmb] there has recently been working started in dhc for DHCPv6 failover
which requires DHCPv6 servers to exchange information.
>
>Section 17.1.3 of RFC-3315 allows a client to select multiple
>Advertisements.
>
>Section 3.1 of RFC-3769 says: "The mechanism should allow for delegation
>of more than one prefix to the customer."
>
>Where does RFC-3633 say that you can have just one prefix or one DHCP
>server?
[jjmb] there is none as far as I know.

>
>I do want to note that in my experience, the current IPv6 model for
>routing
>is a bit incomplete when it comes to dealing with multiple upstreams if
>those ISPs employ ingress filtering. In most current systems, you have to
>resport to policy routing to send packets in the right direction.
>
>I created a simply RIPv6 extension to make at least the routing part work
>automatically but there are some other issues as well.
>
>

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