Communicate the gateway to the clients

[Daniel Roesen]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:03:49PM +0100, Andreas Hanke wrote:
> In IPv4 the Gatway/Router will be communicated via the DHCP OFFER.
> For IPv6 I hearded that the router advertise themself by the Router
> Advertisement (Type 134) message.
> 
> Is that the "standard way"?

Yes.

> Are there any alternatives? If yes which?

Not yet. There's work underway to fix that omission:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mif-dhcpv6-route-option-05
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mouton-mif-dhcpv6-drlo-02


Best regards,
Daniel

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