Patent ID: 8260888
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An address configuration method, comprising: after receiving a neighbor solicitation message that carries a Link-Local Address (LLA) sent by a terminal, judging, by a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) or Broadband Remote Access Server (BRAS), whether the LLA is the same as an address stored in an Internet Protocol (IP) address cache of the BNG or BRAS; if the LLA is different from any IP address stored in the IP address cache of the BNG or BRAS, storing, by the BNG or BRAS, the LLA into the IP address cache; after receiving a router solicitation message, returning, by the BNG OR BRAS, a router advertisement message to the terminal in place of an access router of the BNG OR BRAS; wherein the router advertisement message carries an on-link prefix; configuring, by the terminal, a global Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address of the terminal according to the obtained on-link prefix; retrieving, by the BNG or BRAS, an interface identifier from the LLA; and appending, by the BNG or BRAS, the interface identifier to the on-link prefix corresponding to the terminal to generate the global IPv6 address; delivering, by the BNG OR BRAS, a binding relation between the global IPv6 address of the terminal and a MAC address of the terminal to an access node (AN).