Blog entries for "DHCPv6"

Routing configuration over DHCPv6

08 Nov 2011
Tomek Mrugalski

Currently the DHCPv6 protocol does not allow the provisioning of any routing-related information to hosts. A new proposal is addressing this shortcoming. The draft draft-ietf-mif-dhcpv6-route-option defines a mechanism for delivering routing information over the DHCPv6 protocol. This article explains core concepts and explains how to use the ISC DHCP software to deliver such information.

DS-Lite architecture: overview and automatic configuration

09 Aug 2011
Tomasz Mrugalski

Dual Stack Lite is an architecture that allows IPv4 services to be provided in an IPv6 network, despite a limited amount of available IPv4 addresses. Work on DS-Lite was conducted within the Softwires working group in the IETF, and began in late 2008. After many revisions it was recently published as RFC6333, with its companion RFC6334 dedicated to automated configuration.

ISC DHCP and IPv6 - the DHCPv6 story

21 Apr 2011
Shane Kerr, Tomasz Mrugalski

Numbering Computers in IPv6

Computers and other IPv6-enabled devices need a way to select which IP address they are using, just like in IPv4. IPv6 provides several ways to do this: