>>>>> On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:32:57 +0800,
>>>>> "Alan Chang" <ace@speed.cis.nctu.edu.tw> said:
> At page 26,
> If a Customer Router is present:
> B. It dynamically acquires through stateless autoconfiguration the
> address for the link between itself and the Edge Router. This step
> is followed by a DHCP-PD [RFC 3633] request for a prefix shorter then
> /64 that in turn is divided in /64s and assigned to its interfaces
> connecting the hosts on the customer site.
> Does this mean the router can do stateless autoconfiguration?
>> From what I can remember, a node can be only a host (receive RA) or a
router
> (send RA).
(I've not gone through the document, so I may miss something in the
context, but) isn't the autoconfigured address (between the "Customer
Router" and the "Edge Router") a link-local address?
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
p.s. I happen to find a typo in the original text: in the sentence
beginning with "This step is ...", "shorter then /64" should be
"shorter than /64". (i.e., s/then/than/)
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp