[101222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Dec 23 16:51:58 2007
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:51:09 +0100 (CET)
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <462714FD-1649-4E53-AABD-8FC167AC479A@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > do organizations you know prefer autoconf or dhcpv6? and why?
>
> What I hear is that enterprise admins want DHCPv6 because they want to
> have control. Me, I want to run a DHCPv6-free network because RAs give
> me what I want and more protocols just means more headaches.
I would much prefer DHCPv6 to work "just like DHCPv4" - which means
that the great bulk of our customers are configured with an unnumbered
interface on a BRAS, and all the relevant IP configuration is on the
DHCP server. The key here is avoidance of customer-specific config on
the BRAS.
It's beginning to sound like IPv6 is going to be considerably more
complex than IPv4 here - which is certainly going to slow its uptake...
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
