Re: To address or NAT to address?
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Re: To address or NAT to address?



Bill Fink wrote:

>         Now if we could only have an alternate stateful address
> configuration method than the backwards one of DHCPv6, one that
> generated an IPv6 address directly from the host's domain name
> rather than from a layer 2 MAC address, we'd really be in business.
> Maybe that too will come eventually.

DHCPv6 does allow the client to include its domain name as part of
a DHCP Request, which a DHCP Server could use to identify the
right address for the client on the originating network link.
We expected that the domain name might be used for exactly this
purpose.

Isn't this what you want?

Regards,
Charlie P.




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