>That would be a trivial check in the RADIUS client, right? If the 
>Framed-IPv6-Prefix falls into the Delegated-IPv6->Prefix, then you do the 
>exclude, otherwise not.

Ok, you are right this is a way to do it.

Thanks
Roberta
 
-----Original Message-----
From: radext [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jouni Korhonen
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:43 PM
To: Roberta Maglione (robmgl)
Cc: [email protected]; Athanasios Douitsis; Bernie Volz (volz); Michael 
Richardson; [email protected] WG; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [radext] [homenet] [dhcwg] PPP, DHCPv6 and Prefix Delegation


On Nov 19, 2013, at 7:10 PM, "Roberta Maglione (robmgl)" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> Hello,
> I see your point. In my opinion if you would like to have all the prefixes 
> assigned by RADIUS server in order to be able to cover the scenario you 
> described in a clean way you would need a new RADIUS attribute for PD_EXCLUDE.

I am not sure I agree entirely.


> The reason why I think a new radius would be required is because you need to 
> differentiate between the scenario where Framed-IPv6-Prefix is used to number 
> the Wan link with a separate prefix (not included in the PD - without the 
> PD_EXCLUDE) and the scenario you described where the prefix for the WAN link 
> is part of the PD and you need to copy it into the PD exclude option.

That would be a trivial check in the RADIUS client, right? If the 
Framed-IPv6-Prefix falls into the Delegated-IPv6-Prefix, then you do the 
exclude, otherwise not.


> Today the BNG (that in this case is acting both as RADIUS Client and 
> Delegating Router) has no mean to know if the  Framed-IPv6-Prefix should be 
> used for the  PD_EXCLUDE or not and in my opinion it would be better not 
> overload the sematic of the Framed-IPv6-Prefix.
> Any comment?

I would do the check rather than define a new attribute. 

- Jouni


> Thanks
> Roberta
>  
> From: Athanasios Douitsis [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:50 AM
> To: Bernie Volz (volz)
> Cc: Jouni Korhonen; [email protected]; [email protected]; Roberta Maglione 
> (robmgl); [email protected] WG; Michael Richardson
> Subject: Re: [homenet] [dhcwg] PPP, DHCPv6 and Prefix Delegation
>  
>  
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Bernie Volz (volz) <[email protected]> wrote:
> This must be done by the delegation router (if you are talking about the 
> DHCPv6 packet itself) - as it is the one that constructs the Advertise and 
> Reply messages to the client.
>  
> Pardon me, I meant to wonder who should make the assignment, not who should 
> construct the packets.
> 
> When you are using the Delegated-IPv6-Prefix AV pair, the delegating router 
> obviously constructs the packets with the delegated prefix value, but the 
> actual assignment has been done by the RADIUS server. By the same token, I 
> wondered whether it makes sense to do the same for the OPTION_PD_EXCLUDE 
> value.
> 
> Kind regards,
> -- 
> Athanasios Douitsis
> 
> 

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