<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Andale Mono; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><font face="'Andale Mono'" size="2">The man page (man 5 dhcpd.conf) states the following regarding prefix delegation:</font><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif">The prefix6 statement</font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> prefix6 low-address high-address / bits;</font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> The prefix6 is the range6 equivalent for Prefix Delegation (RFC 3633). Prefixes of bits length are assigned between low-address and high-address.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> Any IPv6 prefixes given to static entries (hosts) with fixed-prefix6 are excluded from the prefix6.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="2" face="'courier new', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif"> This statement is currently global but it should have a shared-network scope.</font></div><div><br></div><font face="'andale mono', times" size="2">My specific question is in regards to the final statement. Does this mean that the prefix6 statement can currently be confined to a shared-network scope but DHCP will not barf if it is in a global position, or that it will be global in scope even if placed inside a shared-network scope? </font></div><div><font face="'andale mono', times" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font face="'andale mono', times" size="2">The reason I ask, is that if it is global even if in a specific shared-network statement, invalid networks could be delegated to clients on completely separate physical networks in our implementation.</font><br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Andale Mono'; font-size: 10pt; "><div><div><div><div><div><br>Thank you,<br><br>Darren</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>