-- Doug

> On 27 June 2021, at 12:41, Michael Chang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> If you actually want that topology, I think in practice the downstream router 
> (B) must be at least a /64; if you got a /48 then I think you can set up A 
> with /56s, which it can use to sub-allocate a /64 to B.
>  
> https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-homenet-arch-01.html 
> <https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-homenet-arch-01.html>
> 
> The config in section 7.2 of 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6#Prefix_delegation_(DHCPv6-PD) 
> <https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IPv6#Prefix_delegation_(DHCPv6-PD)> might 
> be what you're looking for? (See the note about `sla-len`.)

The addresses could be done that way.  However, the issue still remains, how 
does router B distribute the prefix?  Is using a dual dhcp6c - dhcp6s the way 
to go and how does dhcp6s get the prefix from dhcp6c?

> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 12:05 PM Kristian McColm 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 
> wrote:
> RFC 5375 advises against prefixes longer than /64. 
> 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5375#appendix-B.2 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5375#appendix-B.2>
> 
> A /48 gives you 65535 /64’s, why not use some of them?
> 
> From: [email protected] 
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> <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Doug Hardie 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2021 2:54:01 PM
> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> Subject: Prefix delegation to sub nets
>  
> I am trying to setup an IPv6 environment.  There is a primary router (A) that 
> receives a /48 prefix via DHCP6 from the ISP. That router configures itself 
> properly via dhcp6c.  It also creates 2 LAN /64 prefixes and creates EUI-64 
> addresses on the two LAN interfaces.  One of those interfaces is connected to 
> a second router (B), among other devices.  The B router receives the prefix 
> via SLAAC and creates its own EUI-64 address.  However, that router needs to 
> create a smaller subnet, /72, and distribute it to the devices on that LAN.  
> I have not been able to figure out how to make that happen.
> 
> Clearly, manual configuration would work, but the prefix received from the 
> ISP can change which would raise havoc with the network.  I suspect that 
> dhcp6s needto be run alongside dhcp6c on router B and then the other devices 
> run dhcp6c.  However, I don't see how to get the prefix that dhcp6c receives 
> on router B to the dhcp6s process on router B.  I believe I am missing 
> something, but haven't been able to find it.  Thanks,
> 
> -- Doug
> 
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