DHCPv6 relay with PD

Ole Troan ot at cisco.com
Wed Jun 8 20:16:39 CEST 2016


Mikael,

>> We also tried (and failed) to come up with a secure mechanism for the requesting router to advertise it's delegated prefix to first-hop routers.
>> 
>> Less astonished? ;-)
> 
> Well, I guess I shouldn't be astonished. I've even seen vendors implement the DHCPv6-PD server on the router itself, and fail to install route according to the delegated prefix.
> 
> So basically, regarding how to actually implement PD in a network (from an IETF point of view), everybody just gave up, declared the problem unsolvable, and went back to sleep?

It shouldn't be the IETF's job to tell people how to run their networks.
The IETF provides the building blocks.

Cheers,
Ole

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