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IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:20:11PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:40 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>>> If, on the other hand, the REAL desire is to have a DHCP server break
>>> the tie in the selection between several routers that advertise their
>>> presence, that wouldn't be unreasonable.
>>
>> The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if
>> multiple routers are sending the same preference level, but presumably
>> that would not happen in a well-tended network.
>
> I point you to a fairly common Internet architecture artifact,
> the exchange point... dozens of routers sharing a common
> media for peering exchange.
And you want to use router advertisments for assigning addresses for them?
Huh!
Regards,
Janos