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RE: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP
Not having followed this discussion, IMHO there is
significant value in DHCPv6 prefix delegation. It can
be used to delegate recursively-nested site prefixes
and can even be used to delegate "fully-qualified"
prefixes (i.e., /128's). Not sure what any of this
has to do with IETF69 though...
Fred
fred.l.templin@boeing.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:iljitsch@muada.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:05 AM
> To: Kevin Loch
> Cc: v6ops@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP
>
> On 14-sep-2007, at 16:21, Kevin Loch wrote:
>
> > Don't underestimate the significance of full manual configuration
>
> ++
>
> When I first started doing stuff with IPv6 I didn't trust stateless
> autoconf so I used manual configuration. That's no longer an issue,
> but there are reasons why manual can be the best way to go. For
> instance, if you have a bunch of addresses sitting behind a router,
> you can either do manual and a single static route or you have to
> mess with routing protocols.
>
> > or DHCP with RA turned off
>
> DHCPv6 without manual configuration or RAs doesn't work because
> DHCPv6 can't tell you your default gateway.
>
> (And there are other reasons why it's a bad idea.)
>
> > You could also consider learning gateways from vrrp announcements.
>
> Look at that, someone bothered to do work on VRRP for IPv6. That was
> a waste of time, because router advertisements and dead neighbor
> detection give you the same functionality without the need to
> configure stuff.
>
>