On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:46 AM 11/7/12, Ted Lemon wrote: > I don't have a particular preference for DHCP-PD over OSPF in homenets, but I > just wanted to quickly contradict what's been said by several people at the > mic: that figuring out what prefix to delegate is hard. It's not hard, > actually—it's dead easy. The reason folks think it's hard is because > they're solving the wrong problem. > > The problem that needs to be solved is how we number each home subnet. The > answer to this question is, "with a /64." There is no other answer. You > never want to number a subnet with a /52. Therefore, the delegating router > should never delegate anything but a /64. Problem solved. > > I think the disconnect here is that people are thinking the routers to which > prefixes are delegated need to themselves be delegating routers, but this is > incorrect. What they need to do is _relay_ prefix delegation requests to > the delegating router from which they got their own delegation. > > This scales to multi-homing with multiple delegating routers—you just relay > every PD request upstream to all delegating routers.
+1; see my e-mail that passed this e-mail in flight. > > I'd be happy to write a draft that describes how this works draft-baker-homenet-prefix-assignment-01 > if someone actually wants it; I get the sense that people are pretty in love > with the OSPF solution and would prefer not to be distracted, and I have no > argument with that if that's the working group consensus. - Ralph > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
