[106964] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Antonio Querubin)
Mon Aug 18 18:02:00 2008
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:01:50 -1000 (HST)
From: Antonio Querubin <tony@lava.net>
To: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
In-Reply-To: <48A9E95C.6060806@thewybles.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Charles Wyble wrote:
>> Forget about it on XP,
>
> Hmmm. MS says otherwise:
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/network/ipv6/ipv6faq.mspx
None of the XP systems here (even with all the latest service packs
installed) seem to do DHCPv6.
>> 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 :)
Indeed. The Vista client has some real problems with retaining DNS info.
Antonio Querubin
whois: AQ7-ARIN
