Communicate the gateway to the clients

[Enno Rey]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:27:34PM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> 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:

not sure if everybody here agrees with the term "omission". not sure if the "fix" from http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mif-dhcpv6-route-option will ever see the light of the world (read: be ratified) either.

Given this is an ops mailing list, this discussion might be ill-suited here. Just want to avoid that Andreas gets some hope that turns out to be unrealistic...

thanks

Enno




> 
> 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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