Prefix delegation to sub nets

[Brian E Carpenter]

Please don't look at ancient drafts. Look at the homenet architecture RFC:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7368

Definitively, using any prefix longer than /64 *will not work*. The /64 has been carved in stone for many years; that's *why* you get a /48 or /56 
from the ISP.

> The B router receives the prefix via SLAAC and creates its own EUI-64 address. However, that router needs to create a smaller subnet...

That doesn't work. B needs to get its own /64 prefix(es) from A via DHCPv6-PD (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8415). That's what DHCPv6-PD is for. So A will indeed need to be a DHCPv6 server on its downstream interfaces.

If you run OpenWrt on A, this is apparently supported. See https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/ipv6/dhcp6c#example. But I have no experience with that.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 28-Jun-21 08:32, Doug Hardie wrote:
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> -- Doug
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>> On 27 June 2021, at 12:41, Michael Chang <thenewme91 at gmail.com <mailto:thenewme91 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> If you actually want that topology, I think in practice the downstream 
router (B) must be at least a /64; if you got a /48 then I think you can set up A with /56s, which it can use to sub-allocate a /64 to B.
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>> https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-homenet-arch-01.html <https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-homenet-arch-01.html>
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>> The config in section 7.2 of https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6#Prefix_delegation_(DHCPv6-PD) <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6#Prefix_delegation_(DHCPv6-PD)> might be what you're looking for? (See the note about `sla-len`.)
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> The addresses could be done that way.  However, the issue still remains, how does router B distribute the prefix?  Is using a dual dhcp6c - dhcp6s the way to go and how does dhcp6s get the prefix from dhcp6c?
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>> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:05 PM Kristian McColm <Kristian.McColm at rci.rogers.com <mailto:Kristian.McColm at rci.rogers.com>> wrote:
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>>     RFC 5375 advises against prefixes longer than /64. 
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>>     https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5375#appendix-B.2 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5375#appendix-B.2>
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>>     A /48 gives you 65535 /64’s, why not use some of them?
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>>     *Subject:* Prefix delegation to sub nets
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>>     I am trying to setup an IPv6 environment.  There is a primary 
router (A) that receives a /48 prefix via DHCP6 from the ISP. That router 
configures itself properly via dhcp6c.  It also creates 2 LAN /64 prefixes and creates EUI-64 addresses on the two LAN interfaces.  One of those interfaces is connected to a second router (B), among other devices.  The B router receives the prefix via SLAAC and creates its own 
EUI-64 address.  However, that router needs to create a smaller subnet, /72, and distribute it to the devices on that LAN.  I have not been able to figure out how to make that happen.
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>>     Clearly, manual configuration would work, but the prefix received from the ISP can change which would raise havoc with the network.  I 
suspect that dhcp6s needto be run alongside dhcp6c on router B and then the other devices run dhcp6c.  However, I don't see how to get the prefix that dhcp6c receives on router B to the dhcp6s process on router B.  I believe I am missing something, but haven't been able to find it.  Thanks,
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>>     -- Doug
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