Re: [New I-D] Configured Tunnel End Point Option for PPP IPV6CP

Please explain why DHCP cannot be used for this purpose.

John

At 03:10 AM 1/8/2004, Soohong Daniel Park wrote:

>I don't exactly know this draft is useful in this w.g.
>Please let me know if I am missing something...
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>Subject: Configured Tunnel End Point Option for PPP IPV6CP
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>Abstract:
>The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) provides a standard method for
>transporting multi-protocol datagrams over point-to-point links.
>PPP defines an extensible Link Control Protocol and a family of
>Network Control Protocols (NCPs) for establishing and configuring
>different network-layer protocols.  In particular, for the newly
>deployed IPv6 networks to interoperate with vastly deployed IPv4
>networks, various transition mechanisms had been proposed.  One such
>mechanism is configured tunnels.
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>This document extends the NCP for establishing and configuring
>Version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) over PPP, defining the
>negotiation of available Configured Tunnel End Point (CTEP) IPv6
>addresses to reach the IPv6 nodes which are separated by IPv4
>networks.
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>Best wishes...
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>Daniel (Soohong Daniel Park)
>Mobile Platform Laboratory, SAMSUNG Electronics.