[Dibbler] Server questions

[Tomasz Mrugalski]

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 somebody known as Daniel Barboza wrote:

Sorry for delayed response. I has some connectivity issues lately.

> I've been trying to assign the same IPv6 address to the same machine when
> the client starts running, like the behavior we have with DHCPv4: if a
> client recently received an address, for example, 10.10.x.x, when we restart
> the dhcp client the same address 10.10.x.x is assigned by the server.
This is possible in two ways. Both ways can be considered workarounds 
rather than clean problem solutions.

1.reserve address for particular client on the server side
   You can defined multiple pool entries with white list (accept-only
   keyword)
2.make client to ask for a particular address:
--- client.conf ---
log-level 8

iface eth0 {
# ask specificly for 2000::999 address
     ia { address { 2000::999 } }
}
-------------------

Of course, the ultimate solution would be that client remembers its 
address between exections (this is missing) and ask server for that 
address (this is done and working as server honors client's hints). 
Anyway, I have filed a bug to this issue: 
http://klub.com.pl/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124

> Another doubt I have is about address pool. Can I share an address pool with
> different interface declarations? For example, with this server.conf:
No. Please used separated pools for each interface:
pool fec0:a0a:9:0::0/21
pool fec0:a0a:9:5555::0/21
pool fec0:a0a:9:aaaa::0/21

Anyway, are you sure you really want to share the same address pool over 
several interfaces? How are you going to configure routing in your 
network?

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