Question on DHCPv6 address assignment

[Henri Wahl]

Hi,

> 1) What's the pattern with which addresses are generated/assigned? Are
> they sequential (fc00::1, fc00::2, etc.)?  Random? Something else?
>
We use our dhcpy6d (http://dhcpy6d.ifw-dresden.de) which allows 4
different address categories:
- sequential range like fd00::1, fd00::2
- completely random /64 like with privacy extensions:
fd00::3d2a:563f:76f1:d94f
- plain MAC address like fd00::2034:d4f1:439a
- some arbitrary id number given in client configuration like fd00::1,
fd00::3421

See http://dhcpy6d.ifw-dresden.de/documentation/config/addresses for
details.
This way one can hand out for example 2 addresses to clients, one random
privacy-aware global and one range or MAC-based for internal use. The
bad news is that only Windows 7+ is capable of handling more than one
address given by DHCPv6 out of the box. Linux has to be tweaked not to
use Network-Manager and MacOS fails completely - maybe would work with
some dhclient or dibbler-client.

> 2) What about their stability? Is there any intent/mechanism for them to
> be as "stable" as possible? Or is it usual for hosts to get a new
> address for each lease?

MAC and ID based addresses are of course stable, the range based ones
intend to be too and the random ones are regenerated whenever a lease
expired.

Best regards
Henri


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Henri Wahl

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