Title :
Implementation of prefix delegation mechanism using DHCPv6 protocol
Author :
Lee, Joo-Chul ; KIM, Hyoung-Jun
Author_Institution :
Protocol Eng. Center, Electron. & Telecommun. Res. Inst., Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
IPv6 enables simple, automatic host configuration. Conversely, it does not provide any specification to automatically delegate a prefix to a router; to solve this problem several requirements were described and a solution using DHCPv6 protocol for those requirements was standardized. DHCPv6 protocol let DHCPv6 servers pass network configuration parameters to IPv6 nodes. DHCPv6 servers can pass IPv6 prefix delegation parameter to a requesting router by using IPv6 prefix option and requesting router which got the prefix from server can advertise prefix(es) derived from that prefix. To do this, we need DHCPv6 client/server supporting prefix delegation option and router advertisement daemon. In this paper, we implemented DHCPv6 client supporting IPv6 prefix option and for DHCPv6 server and router advertisement module we use open source project to test our s/w module.
Keywords :
IP networks; client-server systems; open systems; routing protocols; transport protocols; DHCPv6 protocol; DHCPv6 server; IPv6; automatic host configuration; client-server support; network passing; open source project; prefix delegation mechanism; router advertisement daemon; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Information science; Intelligent agent; Network servers; Protocols; Testing; Unicast; Web and internet services; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Science, 2005. Fourth Annual ACIS International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2296-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICIS.2005.72
