Re: WGLC ent-analysis-03: DSTM

[Stig Venaas <Stig.Venaas@uninett.no>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 11:37:21AM -0700, Christian Huitema wrote:
> 
> >    While DHCPv4 may or may not require minor tweaks (e.g., relating to
> >    link-layer adaptation),
> > 
> > => using DHCPv4 over a tunnel is *not* a minor tweak.
> 
> Let see. Assume that you have a native IPv6 "site", over which you can
> reliably send multicast packets. Assume that we have defined IPv6
> multicast addresses that reach all the nodes within that scope. Then,
> you can pretty much port DHCP and ARP over that scope, using the node's
> IPv6 address instead of the Ethernet address. You obtain a basic "IPv4
> over IPv6" solution. It is hard to be simpler than that.

Sounds quite a bit like 6over4 (:

Stig