Re: updated v6ops agenda, presentation of way forward

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

Let's try to avoid going into the gritty proto

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> > mannual tunnel configured TEPs at edges, and to lesser degree DHCPv6
> > with custom extensions.  So a TEP discovery solution is required for
> > sure.
>
> DHCPv6? I still have to see that working ;)
> Would be nice option to have though, create a tunnel, use RA or DHCP to
> get the prefix on the tunnel and possibly also
>
> The main reason I know that we are not using RA's is that we want the
> host to be ::2/64, so we can ping6 it for latency and availability and
> then we can also correctly point the prefix to that ip. DHCPv6 could solve
> that, but how many hosts/router platforms have that functionality again?
> DHCPv6-PD would be really nice to do though.

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