host-identifier with IPv6

Eustace, Glen G.Eustace at massey.ac.nz
Thu Feb 26 21:22:27 UTC 2009


> If you want to do MAC addresses based addressing with IPv6, what I would
> suggest is just allowing your router to respond to router solicitations
> and letting your clients use state-less auto-config to configure
> themsevles with EUI-64, MAC address-based addresses, then relying upon
> DHCPv6 to issue DNS and search domain information only, not actual
addressing.
>
> That's what I do in the IPv6 environments that I manage.

We have fixed IPv6 addresses that I need to be able to allocate leases for and I want all IPv6 allocated le3ase3s in our DNS.  I don't think that the routers can do DDNS. So I don't really want to do stateless but thanks for the feedback.



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