Subject: Re: v6 question
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 02/09/2000 18:13:47
>>>>> "itojun" == itojun <itojun@iijlab.net> writes:
itojun> The IPv6 specification clearly separates routers and hosts.
Does this apply on a machine or interface basis?
itojun> Only hosts are supposed to be autoconfigured.
itojun> The specification prohibits autoconfiguration of routers.
I'd think that the very common case of having an autoconfigured "external"
address (PPPoE, ADSL, SDSL, CableModem) and a manually configured internal
address (your IPv6 block, which you advertise to your provider via an IGP)
would be pretty common in the future. (No NAT required, of course)
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