DHCPv6 accounting

Shumon Huque shuque at upenn.edu
Tue May 21 15:33:34 CEST 2013


On 5/21/13 9:25 AM, Tim Chown wrote:
> On 21 May 2013, at 13:26, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org
> <mailto:nick at foobar.org>> wrote:
>
>> On 21/05/2013 13:00, Liviu Pislaru wrote:
>>> With DHCPv6 i didn't find a way to do that (identify what IPv6 is
>>> allocated
>>> to which customer) without asking any additional information from the
>>> customer (like DUID).
>>
>> apparently this is a feature, not a bug.
>
> There is this, which allows a relay to insert the client hardware address:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-halwasia-dhc-dhcpv6-hardware-addr-opt-01
>
> Seems to have expired though :/
>
> Tim

See this one:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6939

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                       G. Halwasia
Request for Comments: 6939                                   S. Bhandari
Category: Standards Track                                         W. Dec
ISSN: 2070-1721                                            Cisco Systems
                                                                 May 2013



Client Link-Layer Address Option in DHCPv6


Abstract

    This document specifies the format and mechanism that is to be used
    for encoding the client link-layer address in DHCPv6 Relay-Forward
    messages by defining a new DHCPv6 Client Link-Layer Address option.

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