ipv6 and failover

Tue Jun 23 10:58:36 UTC 2015

I was afraid for that answer :-(

Are there in the meantime any work-arounds to have some kind of a redundancy, how are Internet providers solving this problem, or aren’t they?

Kristof Van Doorsselaere
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On 23/06/15 12:15, "sthaug at nethelp.no" <sthaug at nethelp.no> wrote:

>> Is there any timing (roadmap) when it will be implemented?
>
>Consider the two documents you mentioned,
>
>> RFC  which discusses a failover design
>>
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-failover-design-04
>>
>> An RCF for DHCPv6 Failover Protocol
>>
>> https://github.com/tomaszmrugalski/ietf-dhcpv6-fo/blob/master/draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-failover-protocol-00.txt
>
>The first document is published as RFC 7031. The second document is from
>March 2015, and is not yet an RFC.
>
>I can't speak for ISC. However, I'm reasonably certain that they won't
>be implementing DHCPv6 failover until the protocol design is "stable",
>for some value of stable. I don't believe we're quite there yet...
>
>Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no