Teemu,

On 2008-10-27 19:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
> 
> Thank you for your responses, comment inline 
> 
>> As for your question, I would say that it depends on implementations.
>> AFAIK, there are already several opensources like ISC DHCP 
>> which supports IA_NA(maybe IA_TA) as well as IA_PD. And 
>> Windows 2008 server also does. Even though details of 
>> implementations may be different, site prefixes are derived 
>>from delegated prefixes and the LAN interface is configured 
>> with addresses from the site prefixes as pre-configured 
>> policy. Then, site prefixes are advertised through following 
>> RA messages from the LAN interface and hosts have addresses 
>> configured via SLAAC. However, I am not sure that ND proxy has 
>> been deployed well.
> 
> Actually I was more concerned on operator policies: if operator is
> running DHCPv6, will it be their policy decision whether or not to allow
> hosts to request for prefixes as well? 
> 
> Consider cellular host case:
> - host implements e.g. ND proxy and DHCPv6 PD for WAN connection sharing
> - host attaches to a network where only DHCPv6 happens to be used
> - host gets single /128 IPv6 address from DHCPv6
> - host tries to get some prefixes for its LAN interface with DHCPv6 PD,
> but network's policy rejects the prefix request
> 
> Now what can host do? Tell user that the currently attached network does
> not allow network connection sharing feature?

Yes. The "host" in this case is actually behaving as a CPE,
and it can report the fact that it's only able to get one
address.

The bug here is that the ISP is handing out a /128 instead of
a /48, /56 or /64. That's a business issue, and the user needs
to find a more reasonable ISP.

   Brian
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