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Re: DHCP vs. RA... again.
On 3-aug-2007, at 20:52, james woodyatt wrote:
James - You're right, RAs would not be made obsolete. RAs would
still be used to tell hosts to use DHCPv6; no prefixes or default
router info would be included in RAs in this scenario.
Are the network operators who are expressing "the specific
requirement" that their network not "depend on RA" willing to
accept that they still need RA to signal nodes that DHCP is
required for obtaining prefix information and default router
addresses?
I would be interested in seeing some more details on their
requirements/desires.
(I was under the impression that a default router address is implied
as the source of the RA. That is the case, but setting a router
lifetime of 0 indicates that the source of the router advertisement
shouldn't be treated as a defaul router.)
Or, do they want RA deprecated completely? If they do, then I
wouldn't like that.
Regardless of whether anyone likes it, such a change isn't deployable
within a reasonable timeframe anyway.