RA & DHCP problem...

[Nick Hilliard]

On 28/12/2013 14:12, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Why? What problem are you solving by changing the current behavior?

RAs don't work for some situations, specifically for those people who have
requirement for tightly timed failover, and for people who are planning or
running very large ipv6 deployments.  For these cases, it is more sensible
to have a statically defined gateway address and to use a mechanism like
DHCP to assign the gateway.

At the moment, there is no option to do this, so the two options for
handling default gateway assignment are: 1) via RAs or 2) manually via
autoconfig scripting, if you have access to the CE device.

No-one is suggesting removing RAs.

Nick