Tony Hain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeroen Massar wrote: > > ... > > If someone doesn't want/like this they can pick a random > > number and use that, they still have to renumber when they > > interconnect to another site or the internet. > > Renumbering in an IPv6 context means adding a prefix. Unlike IPv4 it > does not mean removing the existing one. There is no reason for a site > that connects to have to renumber nodes that are not going to use the > external connection. Get out of the IPv4 mindset.
If you use 'site-local' as a local prefix then you will have to renumber those boxes to be able to get global connectivity. Even if the 'site-local' prefix stays onlink you will need to do renumber in DNS and other configuration items to get global connectivity working on the incoming part. And if your fec0::/10 matches the other parties fec0::/10 also have fun renumbering or are you going for the NAT again? Otherwise have fun setting up the routing and other stuff. Also I wonder why you call it IPv4 mindset; as for as long as I have known there have been alias devices, heck even on NT, one can set multiple IP's/subnets per interface. By hand, not per DHCP but even then. Btw does DHCPv6 allow for multiple multiple prefixes? Eg when there are multiple DHCP servers? I didn't check the spec as RA's work just fine, except for the fact that there is no dns server in there (yet). Greets, Jeroen -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
