[Dnsmasq-discuss] Problem in DHCPv6

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 14:32:52 BST 2014


On Wed, 2014-07-23 at 13:45 +0200, Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> > If I understood correctly, you will have to send router advertisements
> > from your default router (apparently you need to do this from the
> > router, with IPv6) using e.g. radvd to advertise the prefix length.
> 
> Setting the RA on the router in "Managed" mode and commenting "enable-ra" worked, thanks.

DHCPv6 is meant to be used in conjunction with router advertisements,
and is not a mechanism to deliver a default gateway/router to clients.
That is what RA is for.  If you're not delivering actual options (DNS,
search domains, etc) with DHCP, you might re-evaluate whether you need
to use DHCP at all.  RA might be all you need.

Dan




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