Re: DHCP vs. RA... again.

[james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>]

On Aug 3, 2007, at 04:16, Ralph Droms wrote:
> The dhc WG has received a request to develop, on behalf of network  
> operators who have expressed the specific requirement that they do  
> not want the operation of their network to depend on RAs, new  
> options for DHCPv6 to pass prefix and default router information to  
> a host.  That information would allow a host to get all of its  
> configuration information from DHCPv6, obviating the use of RAs.

Alas, that wouldn't make RA obsolete.  You'd have to deprecate RA  
explicitly to make them obsolete.  Otherwise, how can nodes learn  
that DHCP isn't required?


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james woodyatt <jhw@apple.com>
member of technical staff, communications engineering