[111506] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Feb 6 12:51:04 2009
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:50:55 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <20090206.182230.74716370.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> 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.
DHCP is available, spec'd and implemented on some systems. However,
there are times that DHCP fails (from my experience).
Two routers, 2 default routes. Support for shim6 or other multiple IP
protocol. 2 routers, 2 global IP's assigned to the host, different
default routes, and support for backup default route to opposite router.
There are lots of cool things that RA's are used for, and assigning an
address is just one of them.
This argument over DHCP seems to be more noise; as there's room for
both, and the specs and implementations exist for both. Cable modems, in
particular, have a DHCP oriented nature to them; and while there are
bugs being worked out on specific implementations (according to cable
operators I know), they will be using DHCP with IPv6 as well.
Jack
