Re: [69ATTENDEES] DHCP

[Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>]

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 14-sep-2007, at 16:21, Kevin Loch wrote:
> > or DHCP with RA turned off
>
> DHCPv6 without manual configuration or RAs doesn't work because DHCPv6 
> can't tell you your default gateway.

That can be fixed (and I'm sure it will).

> > 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.

RA's are great in certain situations, and I use it on some subnets but
we must have a full set of tools that work with RA turned off.
There are situations where I cannot have hosts (servers in particular)
autoconfigure addresses or gateways, even accidentally.

- Kevin