[106942] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard C. Berkowitz)
Mon Aug 18 15:43:00 2008
From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@netcases.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:42:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20080818123346.9AC36924@resin13.mta.everyone.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
To try to stay operational about this, I have a reality testing question
I've used in IPv4 and, for that matter, bridged networks:
If you want to test a resource, be it the end user or an infrastructure
interface, how do you know how to foo it (foo being some value of ping,
traceroute, look it up in SNMP/NetFlow, etc)?
I submit that if you use dynamic assignment of any sort, you really have to
have DNS dynamic update, so you can use a known name to query the function
that's indexed by address. Otherwise, static addresses become rather
necessary if you want to check a resource.
This was especially a question when L2 was "in" and routing was out: how do
you ping a MAC address?
Howard
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Weeks [mailto:surfer@mauigateway.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 3:34 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
---------- trejrco@gmail.com wrote: ------------
From: "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com>
As a general rule, most clients are following the "If we gave them static
IPv4 addresses we will give them static IPv6 addresses" (infrastructure,
servers, etc). The whole SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 is a separate (albeit
related) conversation ...
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I'm still an IPv6 wussie and would like to learn more before moving forward,
so would anyone care to share info on experiences with this decision?
scott
