DHCPv6 and prefix length

[David W. Hankins]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:23:58AM +0200, "Petr Morávek [Xificurk]" wrote:
> the information on its own. As I understand it, there are currently no
> plans for fixing this issue systematically in the main tree of dhclient.

This is not true.  The plan is to use a VSIO option advertised by
compatible DHCPv6 servers, which the client can apply to the
allocated address.  In its absence, the client will use a /128 prefix
for the address, so that it will rely upon the RA-advertised covering
prefix.

The original plan was to advertise an IETF-standardized prefix option
in-band with DHCPv6.

But if people are already having problems with non-64 prefix lengths,
then we cannot wait for that.

-- 
David W. Hankins	BIND 10 needs more DHCP voices.
Software Engineer		There just aren't enough in our heads.
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		http://bind10.isc.org/
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 197 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <https://lists.isc.org/pipermail/dhcp-users/attachments/20100901/d6f2bde3/attachment.bin>