Issue with dhcpd6 and range6

[David Highley]

"Chuck Anderson wrote:"
> 
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 09:33:52AM -0800, David Highley wrote:
> > This is the first effort to set up an IPV6 network. Trying to implement
> > the equivalent of a 10.2.2.0 network. Name services work both forward
> > and reverse and static dhcp addresses are not complained about. Just do
> > not seem to be able to get the dynamic addresses to work.
> 
> There isn't a direct equivalent to RFC 1918 for IPv6, but you can use
> ULA instead, RFC 4193.
> 
> > 
> > subnet6 fe80::a02:200/120 {
> >     range6 fe80::a02:241 fe80::a02:254;
> 
> You probably shouldn't be handing out link-local fe80:: addresses with
> DHCPv6.  Each client needs a link-local address generated by means
> other than DHCPv6 in order to use DHCPv6 (i.e. before DHCPv6 is
> started), so it is somewhat of a chicken/egg problem.  See RFC 3315
> sections 1.1 and 16.

Oh, we thought in reading up that this was an equivalent, non routable
type network to a class A 10 network even though we are only trying to
use the last byte for host addressing.

Kind of reminds me of the early days of networking when we created the
layer 8 class as training, documentation, and general knowledge were
not readily available.:-)

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