Ted, this has been proposed a few times. the problems that I see with it are: - in an arbitrary topology how do you decide which interfaces you are a client on and which interfaces you relay on - how do you handle the case where multiple routers try to assign a prefix to a link - how do you discover the DHCPv6 servers - how do you handle the case with multiple sources of information (multi-homing)
the OSPF based prefix assignment handle all of these, "out of the starting blocks". cheers, Ole > 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. > > I'd be happy to write a draft that describes how this works 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. > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
