[111498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Fri Feb 6 12:23:16 2009
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:22:30 +0100 (CET)
To: iljitsch@muada.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <76717384-CF2C-4B73-90EB-5FA0EC20D2B6@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> The problem is that DHCP seemed like a good idea at the time but it
> doesn't make any sense today. We know that parsing complex binary data
> formats is asking for security problems.
And parsing complex text data structures is better?
> What we need is a simple, fast, efficient way to distribute the basic
> information that a host needs to start sending and receiving packets
> and a pointer to a place where additional location dependent
> configuration information can be found. That would be: address+prefix,
> gateway and (arguably) DNS and then something like a URL for a server
> that has the config info. The system and applications can then load
> information from the config server over HTTP in XML format or some such.
No, this information must be available in *one* place. It's called a
DHCP server. As an operator, this is clearly what I want, both for IPv4
and IPv6.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
