RE: DHCP issue in draft-palet-v6ops-solution-tun-auto-disc-01.txt

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Soohong Daniel Park wrote:
> > I'm not considering DHCP at all. May be need to be further
> > clarified. Is one more option, but more related, in my opinion,
> > to very controlled networks where you are sure that DHCP
> > options are relayed. We can even delete this section if it
> > creates confusion.
>
> *controlled networks* is also important domain for adopting
> IPv6 widely, especially enterprise network is entirely controlled
> by network administrator. Also enabling DHCP is quite normal,
> cheap and a widely deployed scenario. This solution works
> very well within our enterprise network.

I've no doubt it works within an enterprise network, but because it 
does not work under all the major scenarios (for example, over 
dial-ups, ADSLs, over VPN or v6-in-[udp]v4 tunnels, etc. where you 
don't run DHCP, and not necessarilily even PPP), the real question is: 
"is DHCP a sufficiently convincing method in a subset of all scenarios 
for configuration of the tunnel endpoint?"

DNS works under every scenario.  DHCP provides a slightly more 
customization per client but I'm sceptical whether this is 
an actual necessity.

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