That doesn't give the option to the server, though... the client has to ask for 
one or the other.

Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:

>On Mar 10, 2013, at 8:42 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Not even all that strange, after all it lets the ISP manage the
>network
>> in a pretty straightforward way.  The hard part about this is that
>there
>> doesn't seem to be a good way in DHCPv6 to ask for "I need X networks
>of
>> width Y" and have the upstream choose between a single narrower net
>or
>> multiple networks.
>
>Actually there is.   Just send another IA_PD with a different IAID.  
>If the server is willing to give you another prefix, it will.  This
>isn't documented anywhere, but it's really the only way to do it—the
>server isn't allowed to generate new IAIDs.

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