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Re: new draft on IPv6 CPE router available for review



--- On Wed, 7/2/08, Francois-Xavier Le Bail <fx.lebail@yahoo.com> wrote:

> The CPE must also support IPv4, and for using one subnet in
> IPv4 world, it's a practice to have a LAN bridge with
> Ethernet, Wifi, etc. interfaces adding to it.
> And this bridge is always up, even if the LAN interfaces
> are individualy down.
> So binding the global-scope management address to this LAN
> bridge can be a way to consider.

When the CPE router has only a link-local address on the WAN port,
if the CPE has a LAN bridge, I hope there is an option to have the 
global-scope address set on the LAN bridge (from IA_PD via DHCPv6)
as an alternative to loopback solution.

Do you agree ?

Best Regards,

Francois-Xavier