Server addressing for renumbering ease

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sun Nov 7 00:28:54 CET 2010


George, Ben,

On 2010-11-07 12:06, George Bonser wrote:

>> Some other options:
>>  * Solaris lets you configure just the host-part, and it takes the
>> network-part from RAs. This seems ideal, but it only works on solaris.
> 
> Yeah, I really like that.  I wish Linux supported it, too.  In fact, I wish that option was incorporated in the standard as an option for anyone to use.  If that were the case, renumbering would be easy and I would be willing to accept the prefix(s) from the RA.

How about writing the appropriate Internet-Draft then?

(BTW, I think that would already be standards-conformant for IP6CP/PPP.)

  Brian



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