dhclient: requesting multiple IPv6 prefixes?

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Jun 8 03:54:17 UTC 2012


On 06/04/2012 09:00 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 06/01/2012 02:13 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Is there any way to tell dhclient to request multiple IPv6 prefixes (one
>> per downstream interface?)
> 
> To update my own query, my understanding of RFC 3633 is that in order to
> do this, the requesting router is expected to send a separate IA_PD
> option with a unique IAID for each prefix requested.  However, per the
> documentation for IA_PD and IA_PREFIX they don't seem to be possible to
> configure.
> 
> It would also be nice to be able to send an IA_PREFIX option requesting
> a specific prefix length.
> 

Either way, I guess the documentation states you can only get one prefix
at the current time:

-P     Enable  IPv6 prefix delegation.  This implies -6 and also
disables the normal address query.  See -N to restore it.  Note only one
requested interface is allowed.

	-hpa






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