DHCPv6 for IPv6 routing information, was Re: Mysterious missing DHCPv6 feature

[Shane Kerr]

Nick,

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 11:11 +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> > People said that, but there was a big push to have DNS in RA and now  
> > there is push to have routing in DHCPv6, so I think it'll happen,  
> > we'll have quite a lot of overlap.
> 
> I love the idea of future aspiration here; that one day we'll have  
> functional  ipv6 autoconfiguration, just not yet.

To be fair, it works today in most cases.

You need something sending RA - probably a router, but can also be a
server.

Some way to get addresses to the hosts - either via stateless
autoconfiguration via the RA or via DHCPv6. Both work today, pretty much
perfectly.

Something answering DHCPv6 requests to get basic networking
configuration. This can be stateless DHCPv6 in the case of
autoconfigured or CGA, or it can be stateful if you are using DHCPv6
that way.


Now, if you mean *prefix* autoconfiguration, we're not there yet... :)

--
Shane