On 19 nov 2007, at 14:49, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
I'm not clear how the specified mechanism would work with address
autoconfiguration. Would EAP be encapsulated within an RS/RA
exchange?
Sounds like something that would be quite painful to deploy, right?
My take on this is that the idea of coupling authentication with
address configuration isn't the best possible one. Ideally, all of
this would happen at a layer below IP.
On 19 nov 2007, at 14:53, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No. I'm guessing that would be a short book. Especially the IPv6
part, as doing IPv6 over PPP isn't workable in practice.
Out of curiosity -- why not?
There is no IPv6 address assignment through PPP specified and
implementers have different takes on the use of RAs on PPP links so
this doesn't work either. Haven't tried with DHCPv6 but I expect
issues with that, too, because PPP is point-to-point rather than
multipoint so I don't see how the addresses on both sides of the PPP
link would stay in sync.
Most hosts running IPv6 today don't run DHCPv6. If I'm not going
to run DHCPv6 to learn IPv6 nameserver addresses, I'm also not
going to do it just because my DSL provider wants me to.
I had the impression that this was primarily for use on the CPE.
It looked to me like the requirements left the possibility of
connecting a host directly open although this is obviously not the
primary focus.
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