DHCP6 default router

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Mon Dec 3 14:05:22 CET 2012


> During implementing IPv6 in our network, we faced the problem DHCP6 have
> no concensus about default router option.
> 
> Is there any best practice to send default router via DHCP? Or may be a
> list of option numbers different vendors are using?

Clients are supposed to get their default router from RA, not from
DHCP. You may not like this - but that is the current situation.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no


More information about the ipv6-ops mailing list