if you don't mind, please let's try to focus on prefix delegation on this thread. griefs with DHCP based address assignment can be taken on the DHC list. I don't think we need to do the 'H' in DHCP means host discussion again either.
cheers, Ole > Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 13:16:08 +0200 > From: Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > | => address assignment is not the good way to manage an IPv6 network, > | address registration is simpler so better. > > This depends what kind of net you're attempting to run, and how. > Inside my house, I might want to group various different pieces of > furniture on the LAN into related address groups. This allows me > to write firewall rules easily to grant similar access to all of the > chairs, without having to identify each one (they'll come from > different manufacturers, so the EUI won't help group them). > > In this kind of environment I can be fairly confident that one of the > chairs isn't going to decide to simply configure itself a different > address to side-step my policies. So as long as all the furniture talks > to my server to have its address allocated, I can assign addresses that > match my policies, and have the firewalls simply apply the correct > policies as soon as the node becomes active. > > Certainly, address registration can be useful as well - but that's not > a configuration function, it is a post configuration function, so > arguably belongs elsewhere. And also, certainly, not all nets require > all of this administrative baggage, and so it needs to be possible to > run a net with no DHCP servers at all. So, while as an interim measure > until we get something better, doing some of the missing "extra" config > using DHCP, and not providing any alternative that really works might > be acceptable, longer term, we need methods for all of this that works > (which means not well known addresses, of any kind) without requiring > anything like DHCP. > > kre -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
