DHCPv6 default gateway option?

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Tue Dec 7 19:47:44 UTC 2010


> Can anybody point me at the available option in dhcpd6.conf, where I can 
> specify default gateway for my IPv6 network?

You can't. DHCPv6 needs RA for the default gateway - at least for now.

There's been a lot of discussion about this over the years. There are
a lot of us who would like to run DHCPv6 alone, without RA. But there's
also a rather stiff/religious opposition to this in the IETF.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no



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