[106961] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Siler)
Mon Aug 18 17:52:25 2008
From: Sean Siler <Sean.Siler@microsoft.com>
To: TJ <trejrco@gmail.com>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:52:16 -0700
In-Reply-To: <011001c9017b$3b8d4910$b2a7db30$@com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Nope. XP does not support DHCPv6 - only Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and late=
r) can do that.
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: TJ [mailto:trejrco@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:42 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Charles Wyble [mailto:charles@thewybles.com]
>Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 5:28 PM
>To: nanog@merit.edu
>Subject: Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
>
>Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>> On 18 aug 2008, at 22:23, Dale W. Carder wrote:
>>
>>> DHCPv6
>>> - doesn't ship w/ some OS's
>>
>> Forget about it on XP,
>
>Hmmm. MS says otherwise:
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx
Did you see somewhere on that site, that WinXP does DHCPv6?
I don't. And it would be wrong, to boot.
(Not just IPv6 support - that is one simple command ...)
>> but it's in Vista. You can add it to BSD/Linux without too much
>> trouble (are there good, bugfree implementations for those yet?)
>
>Bugfree? Nothing is bugfree :)
>> but Mac is a problem for prospective DHCPv6 users because the network
>> configuration mechanisms are fairly proprietary and DHCPv6 isn't
>> likely to be supported any time soon.
>
>Hmmmm. I have yet to play with the Mac Ipv6 support (typing this on a Mac
>now I should try in my lab later). What auto configuration mechanisms are
>you referring to? Bonjour? Isn't there an RFC or two for Zeroconf?
No, I believe he is referring to the actual network configuration.
Not the (almost) automatic/automated service/device discovery ...
>
>--
>Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059
/TJ
