disabling client use of SLAAC

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 2010-03-05 22:24, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
...
> The M and O flags says "get info via DHCP", but it seems they don't mean
> "do NOT use SLAAC" if I read http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2462.txt correctly?
> 
> So bottom line, how to make clients not use SLAAC with a Cisco router?
> 

Note that this is known to be a tricky area in mutlti-vendor, multi-o/s
situations.

Quoting draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work-05:

   We should note a currently unresolved ambiguity in the interaction
   between DHCPv6 and SLAAC from the host's point of view.  RA messages
   include a 'Managed Configuration' flag known as the M bit, which is
   supposed to indicate that DHCPv6 is in use.  However, it is
   unspecified whether hosts must interpret this flag rigidly (i.e., may
   or must only start DHCPv6 if it is set, or if no RAs are received) or
   whether hosts are allowed or are recommended to start DHCPv6 by
   default.  An added complexity is that DHCPv6 has a 'stateless' mode
   [RFC3736] in which SLAAC is used to obtain an address but DHCPv6 is
   used to obtain other parameters.  Another flag in RA messages, the
   'Other configuration' or O bit, indicates this.

   Until this ambiguous behaviour is clearly resolved by the IETF,
   operational problems are to be expected, since different host
   operating systems have taken different approaches.  This makes it
   difficult for a site network manager to configure systems in such a
   way that all hosts boot in a consistent way.  Hosts will start SLAAC
   if so directed by appropriately configured RA messages.  However, if
   one operating system also starts a DHCPv6 client by default, and
   another one starts it only when it receives the M bit, systematic
   address management is impeded.

       Brian