DHCPv6 default gateway option?

Tue Dec 7 19:56:27 UTC 2010

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 08:47:44PM +0100, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > 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.

See also:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-droms-dhc-dhcpv6-default-router-00

The draft expired with no follow-on work that I'm aware of.