[j-nsp] DHCP IPv6

[Irena Nikolova]

Hi Paul,

Would you mind sharing this example DHCPv6 config here?
I'm also curious what kind of clients do you use, is it the ISC DHCPv6
client or another one?

Thanks,
Irena


2011/10/7 Paul Stewart <paul at paulstewart.org>

> Thank you Amos, Robert, Jared, and Scott for the on-list and off-list
> replies.
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> Got it up and running – appreciate the responses…
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> Paul
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> From: Amos Rosenboim [mailto:amos at oasis-tech.net]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 2:25 PM
> To: Paul Stewart
> Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] DHCP IPv6
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> Hi Paul,
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> The Junos DHCPv6 implementation does not support DHCPv6 IA requests as sent
> by users. It supports DHCPv6 PD (prefix delegation) for allocating prefixes
> to downstream routers.
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> However you don't really need DHCPv6 to assign users with IP addresses. All
> you need to do enable router advertisements for the relevant LAN interface
> where your users will connect.
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> The only problem is that router advertisement doesn't provide users with
> DNS information.
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> For this you need to enable the "other config" flag in router advertisement
> and configure a DHCPv6 with just DNS information.
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> Sounds tedious ? It is.
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> Amos
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On 7 Oct 2011, at 19:31, "Paul Stewart" <paul at paulstewart.org> wrote:
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> Hoping someone can help me here ;)
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> We have an upcoming event where we will be supplying a Juniper J series (or
> possibly SRX) as a sponsor.  The box will be fed via 45Mb/s Internet
> connection from us.
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> My issue is that I've worked around IPv6 for quite a while now and never
> setup DHCP to date for end-customer usage (only worked in core networks
> with
> BGP peering etc - totally static environment).
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> In the IPv4 world, this seemed rather simple.  In the IPv6 world this all
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> a sudden seems complicated....
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> Does anyone have a JunOS config for IPv6 DHCP they could share?  I'd like
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> see a working example that would be relevant to public access.  We can
> allocate whatever size of IPv6 prefix makes sense - but I'm thinking the
> "common proper" way of doing this ?  In my home network it "just works"
> with
> no DHCP actually in place via Neighbor Discovery if I understand that
> correctly.
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> Perhaps a loaded question - just looking for suggestions ;)
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> Thanks,
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> Paul
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