RA & DHCP problem...

[Hannes Frederic Sowa]

On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 05:57:14PM +0100, Marco Sommani wrote:
> On 28/dic/2013, at 17:36, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:41:58PM +0100, "Roger Jørgensen" wrote:
> >> It should be possible to have a network running DHCP without any RA, if
> >> someone wants to do that. As far as I know, and you need RAs in todays
> >> world because DHCPv6 can not give out defaultroute. It break the
> >> standard if it (DHCPv6) does...
> > 
> > DHCPv6 does not provide any on-link information. So you would have to
> > include those, too. IIRC dibbler dhcp implementation has their own option
> > to specificy prefix length and on-link information so I assume you can
> > already use it standalone without RA. But I don't see any benefit in
> > doing so.
> > 
> > (dibbler already supports sending gateway and route informations in
> > dhcpv6).
> 
> 
> Dibbler sends them, but no DHCPv6 client except dibbler's can use them. Non-standard solutions are useless in this case.

Sure, I just wanted to maybe give a starting point if OP wants to bring this
ot the IETF 6man's table.