about stateless and stateful autoconfig

Discussion in 'Networks' started by kobem, Jan 3, 2008.

  1. kobem

    kobem Megabyte Poster

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    short questions you can understand

    question 1 : stateless autoconfig means link-local addresses all time?

    question 2 : stateful autoconfig means site-local add. ?

    question 3 : for link-local add. to "complete" configuration should we need a router ?
     
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  2. hbroomhall

    hbroomhall Petabyte Poster Gold Member

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    As far as I know the answers are:
    No, No and No.

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  3. kobem

    kobem Megabyte Poster

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    first one maybe no !

    but second one stateful means configuring addresses depending on a device such as a DHCP server
    but while performing this what type of address we use ? (site-local ? link-local ? )


    third one is OK
     
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  4. hbroomhall

    hbroomhall Petabyte Poster Gold Member

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    If you read the docs on DHCPv6 you will see that it can behave like the v4 version, where "no IP address" is a possible starting point.

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  5. hbroomhall

    hbroomhall Petabyte Poster Gold Member

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    After a quick perusal of the RFC I see that in fact the starting point is a link-local address on the client side, and a multicast on the server side.

    Harry.
     
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