Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

Ted Lemon Ted.Lemon at nominum.com
Sat Nov 19 19:56:50 UTC 2011


On Nov 20, 2011, at 4:50 AM, "Alex Bligh" <alex at alex.org.uk> wrote:
> Right, but one end is a virtual router, the connectivity is virtual
> ethernet, and the other end is a VM running an unknown OS. dhcpv6 has poor
> prevalence in such OS, and in any case I can't without using dhcp in a
> non-standard way determine the device by the MAC address I've given it, and
> circuit ID methods require similar hacks; none of that is attractive. So
> that leaves me with autoconfig and a /64.

Yup, ordinarily you manually configure the tunnel endpoints, I guess.  I don't think DHCPv6 could help you here in any case.   A lot of operating systems don't even support it for address configuration.




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