At 03:28 PM 2/13/2002 -0600, Lilian Fernandes wrote: >Hi, > >I have a question about RFC2472 - "IP Version 6 over PPP". The RFC talks >about the negotiation of the Interface-Identifier and specifies the >Interface-Identifier Configuration Option. In this case the upper 64 bits >are just fe80:: > >It does not mention if there is any standard way to configure a >global/site-local prefix on a point-to-point link i.e. are there >configuration options to let one side tell the other about a global >prefix? > >Or is it just left upto the users at both ends to decide on a prefix >somehow and then configure it on each end?
The prefix is provided using the Route Advertisement Message (see RFC2461). As an aside, I saw a draft on Automatic Prefix Delegation a while back. It talked about providing a router with a prefix it could use to advertise on its attached subnet. It does this using two new ICMPv6 messages. Does anyone know what the status of this draft is? Siva >I'm sorry if there is an RFC about this that I missed... > >Thanks, >Lilian > >_____________________________________________________________________ > >Lilian Fernandes >AIX TCP/IP Development - IBM Austin >Tel: 512-838-7966 Fax: 512-838-3509 > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List >IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng >FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng >Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >-------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
