DHCPv6 for IPv6 routing information, was Re: Mysterious missing DHCPv6 feature

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:

> 	what was hard to digest was the fact that the base IPv6 architeecture
> 	only works for about 85% of the existing use cases. That leaves about
> 	15% of existing, core use cases where the default IPv6 tool suite
> 	won't work as advertized or will screw up everything..  case in point,
> 	an internet exchange on shared media (yeah, these are increasingly rare
> 	but work w/ me here)  I've got a dozen routers on the same media, all
> 	running RA - telliing/shouting to all the other routers - NO, USE ME!
> 	ND (neighboor discovery) has the same problems in a multi-homed network.

IXes here in Europe primarily run in shared broadcast domains, and they 
generally require RA to be turned off completely:

http://www.ams-ix.net/allowed-traffic/

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se