RA & DHCP problem...

[Marco Sommani]

On 28/dic/2013, at 17:36, Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 03:41:58PM +0100, "Roger Jørgensen" wrote:
>> It should be possible to have a network running DHCP without any RA, if
>> someone wants to do that. As far as I know, and you need RAs in todays
>> world because DHCPv6 can not give out defaultroute. It break the
>> standard if it (DHCPv6) does...
> 
> DHCPv6 does not provide any on-link information. So you would have to
> include those, too. IIRC dibbler dhcp implementation has their own option
> to specificy prefix length and on-link information so I assume you can
> already use it standalone without RA. But I don't see any benefit in
> doing so.
> 
> (dibbler already supports sending gateway and route informations in
> dhcpv6).


Dibbler sends them, but no DHCPv6 client except dibbler's can use them. Non-standard solutions are useless in this case.

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