On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Michael Kloberdans wrote:

2.  CER Identification Option

  A Customer Edge Router (CER) sets the CER_ID to the IPv6 address of
  its LAN interface.  If it has more than one LAN IPv6 address, it
  selects one of its LAN or loopback IPv6 addresses to be used in the
  CER_ID.  An ISP server does not respond with the CER_ID or sets the
  CER_ID to ::.  Such a response or lack of response indicates to the
  DHCPv6 client that it is the CER.

  The format of the CER Identification option is:

   0                   1                   2                   3
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
  |      option-code              |      option-len               |
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
  |                                                               |
  |                           CER_ID                              |
  |                                                               |
  |                                                               |
  +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      option-code          OPTION_CER_ID (TBD).
      option-len           36
      CER_ID value         IPv6 address of CER or ::

I am not an expert when it comes to DHCP. Is there something implicit in the way that DHCP options are designed that makes it obvious that the "CER_ID value" is using ASCII or 128 bits binary to represent the IPv6 address? Because it's not obvious to me from reading the above text.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: [email protected]

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