Hi,
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:59:06PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > We just don't want to run yet another service that could fail, needs
> > configuration, and possibly debugging if client machines are unhappy.
> >
> > Routers are there, so RAs are there anyway. DHCP is an extra.
>
> just checking: so you are voting for adding DNS server address info
> into RAs?
This would solve one part of our remaining issues with IPv6 auto-
configuration, yes. (The other part is "rouge RAs", which is not
that easy).
> i just do not want RA be a kitchen sink, so DHCPv6-lite is a good-
> enough compromise for me. if you piggyback DNS server address info
> into RAs, you do need to configure the info into every routers you got.
Yep.
The alternative would be to have DHCPv6-lite servers *on the router*
(remember: extra machines need power, maintenance, and tend to break) - so
we'd need to configure this data on the routers anyway.
This is targeting SoHo networks - no dedicated servers, just client PCs
and a router. In our environment, the router is normally manually
configured, so configuring more stuff on it would not be a problem.
In some scenarios, DHCP prefix delegation from a centralized management
server -> SoHo router, and from there RA / DHCPv6-lite -> clients would
also imaginable, but that's a different deployment scenario.
Gert Doering
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