> -----Original Message----- > From: Mikael Abrahamsson [mailto:[email protected]]
Here is the crux of my not understanding the problem: > And no, I haven't seen any residential rollout > plan where > IPv6 would be provisioned in the static way you describe, > DHCPv6-PD seems > to be the most popular method seen in discussion. Does not the ISP control, own, and distribute the "residential gateway"? If yes, then the DHCP conducted within the broadcast domain part of the network, i.e. the "last mile" part *outside* customer premises, should be able to ensure uniqueness of the EUI and consequently the IPv6 address of each residential gateway WAN side, no? So that DHCP or whatever method of assigning IPv6 WAN side addresses should be safe. For that matter, one could use the client identifier option, and the ISP could hard-code the client ID in each of their residential gateways, before distributing these to customer premises. Why would ISP not own and control the residential gateway? We received our ADSL "modem" in the mail, from Verizon. It is a NAT, and the WAN side is under their control entirely. Is this not standard practice among ISPs? Bert -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
