multiple prefixes

[Bernd Walter]

Am 14.02.2013 um 18:32 schrieb Andre Tomt <andre at tomt.net>:

> On 14. feb. 2013 18:00, Bernd Walter wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 04:17:01PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
>> 
>> Even then the prefix changes unscheduled and can 
>> Another point: Say you have had a power failure.
>> Your plastic box gets rebooted and your DSL won't get established.
>> What prefix is your home network running with?
>> Local addresses (link local and ULA) are the only options unless your
>> plastic box kept knowledge about the old (and at this time not
>> officially granted) prefix.
>> My router has a static prefix assignment for reason.
> 
> My router at home remembers the previous prefix lease and will keep announcing it to the network until another prefix comes along. I have no idea if this is the norm though - but it probably should be.

Even after power cycle?
Another wrote that with his box even the RFC1819 IPv4 addresses will be renumbered as it won't store the dhcp leases.
> 

My expectations from plastic boxes are not very high - the fortunate thing is that most of them only have a short lifecycle.