Cisco has had DHCPv6 (client, server and relay agent) in IOS since
2003. The first TAHI DHCPv6 testing was also in 2003. Results from
the interoperability testing of several servers and clients was used
to improve the DHCPv6 spec (RFC 3315), published in July 2003. The
dibbler project DHCPv6 client and server have been available for
several years, as well.
- Ralph
On Sep 28, 2007, at Sep 28, 2007,8:01 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 28-sep-2007, at 20:00, DE JUAN HUARTE FEDERICO wrote:
If a network administrator decides to set the M bit meaning that
it intends to always manage the address configuration, can he
expect all hosts to support the DHCP functionality?
In other words, is DHCP a MUST implement for IPv6 hosts?
Note that these are separate questions. The latter has already been
answered.
As to the former: no, it's certainly not true that all hosts
support DHCP. And the ones that do, may support one, two or three
of the following capabilities:
- other configuration (such as DNS server addresses)
- prefix delegation
- address assignment
I would be interested in hearing about anyone actually using DHCPv6
address assignment. Two years ago when I wrote my book about IPv6 I
couldn't find any servers or clients that supported this. I gather
this has changed, but I'm not sure to what degree.
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