Re: [RRG] Consensus check: renumbering - missing dimension

["Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> wrote:
>
>
> |The reasoning is that IPv6 was designed that way, so why not
> |use the feature if it proves to be useful, at least for small/medium
> |sites.
>
>
> Do folks really feel that stateless autoconfig is a significant step forward
> vs. DHCP?  Current dual-stack site admins would be especially welcome to
> opine.
>

stateless-autoconfig is entirely not sufficient for site admins to use
in a 'renumbering' event. There are many items passed out in DHCP
responses which are used by the end systems and not included in
stateless-autoconfig. Existing practices account for these items via
DHCP in a mostly centralized manner, without these items site-admins
will be left with no option but to manually touch each device...

Take a moderately large enterprise of 50k systems in a global setting,
how long will it take to touch each of the 50k devices and change even
the basics: dns-server, wins-servers, domainname  (assume you can not
'trust' the system owner/user to get this right, and assume you have
limited helpdesk-staff).

-chris

> Tony
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