DHCPv6 relay with PD

Erik Kline ek at google.com
Wed Jun 8 20:37:22 CEST 2016


On 9 June 2016 at 03:16, Ole Troan <ot at cisco.com> wrote:
> 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.

But this sounds like what's missing is operational guidance on what
collections of blocks have been known to work.


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