RA & DHCP problem...

Tarko Tikan tarko at lanparty.ee
Mon Dec 30 13:49:41 CET 2013


hey,

> IA_PD is a red herring, because it's fully independent from everything
> else, except that it happens to use the same mechanics as IA_NA -
> effectively it's different enough as far as handling in devices is
> concerned that it could be considered a protocol in it's own.

Unfortunately it's not different protocol and it is a great way to 
propagate prefix information to HGWs. And because you get other DHCP 
benefits like DNS and NTP propagation, LDRA inserting circuit 
identification information it feels natural to have default gw 
information as well.

-- 
tarko


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