On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 06:29:54PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> On 07/11/12 18:21, David Lamparter wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 06:03:52PM +0000, Simon Kelley wrote:
> >> On 07/11/12 15:46, Ted Lemon wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>
> >> ... and once the delegating routers are relaying DHCP-PD requests, they
> >> can also relay DHCP address-lease requests to the DHCP server in the CPE
> >> router. This puts all the information about DHCP leases and associated
> >> names in one place, and greatly simplifies the naming problem.
> >
> > This really falls apart when I'm using 2 ISPs with 2 exit routers.
> > a-k-a, "Where's up?"
> 
> and be put back together by noting that 2 exit routers doesn't have to 
> mean 2 DHCPv6 servers. A single DHCP server can take PDs from 2 or more 
> upstream ISPs. If the problem is that exit routers come with DHCPv6 
> servers, then adding the ability to disable all but one (automatically 
> or manually) would be worth considering.

Yes, and now we need some protocol to decide which of the routers serves
as DHCPv6/PD server, that needs to work while crossing intermediate
routers possibly... (assuming we want to do it automatically)

So that's heading for another information propagation/flooding/election
protocol, at which point I don't see why we shouldn't just use OSPFv3.


-David
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