Support for DHCPV6 and CCC options for PacketCable 1.x Devices

[John Jason Brzozowski]

Francis,

I am and have been actively involved in the work you allude to, at this
point I am primarily interested in transmitting the CCC options to the eCM
over DHCPv6.

If you wish I can have an offline discussion with you to discuss this topic
further.

John 


On 4/22/08 5:41 AM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:

> John:
> 
> A week or two ago I was reading some whitepaper/slide decks about Comcast's
> move to IPv6, and it seemed to suggest that Comcast was working with eMTA
> vendors to make their products IPv6 ready.
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-54/presentations/IPv6_management.pdf
> http://www.apricot.net/apricot2006/slides/conf/wednesday/Alain_Durand-Archit
> ecture-external.ppt
> http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/05aug/slides/lrw-5.pdf
> 
> I was under the impression that wasn't only the CM portion, but also the
> eMTA portion.
> 
> I know Motorola has been watching this listserv in regards to IPv6, and I'll
> pass that person's contact information to you off-line.
> 
> BTW, I have not heard anything from Arris about their eMTAs being IPv6
> ready, but I presume that's in the pipeline.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Frank
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:dhcp-users-bounce at isc.org] On Behalf
> Of John Jason Brzozowski
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:24 AM
> To: dhcp-users at isc.org
> Subject: Support for DHCPV6 and CCC options for PacketCable 1.x Devices
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Wanted to send a quick note before I went off and invested lots of time to
> try and figure this out.  It seems unlikely that this is supported but I
> thought it would be prudent to ask.
> 
> As part of the DOCSIS 3.0 and related efforts the ability to transmit the
> CCC options (DHCPv4 equivalent is Option 122) care of DHCPv6 was introduced.
> Some of these options like sub-option 1 and sub-option 2 are IPv4 addresses
> of DHCPv4 server used by the MTA for provisioning.
> 
> I wish to be able to do this using the ISC DHCPv6 server.
> 
> Has anyone ventured into this territory or know if it is even supported?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
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> John Jason Brzozowski (CISSP, RHCT)
> Comcast Corporation
> e) mailto:john_brzozowski at cable.comcast.com
> m) 609-377-6594
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> 
> 
> 
> 

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John Jason Brzozowski (CISSP, RHCT)
Comcast Corporation
e) mailto:john_brzozowski at cable.comcast.com
m) 609-377-6594
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