[111957] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Tue Feb 17 15:33:02 2009
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:02:03 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <43C94354-8F96-4082-B082-CB5B91EB71E4@delong.com>
Cc: 'Carl Rosevear' <Carl.Rosevear@demandmedia.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi,
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:48:49 -0800
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 17, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Tony Hain wrote:
>
> > While people frequently claim that auto-config is optional, there are
> > implementations (including OS-X) that don't support anything else at
> > this
> > point. The basic message is that you should not assume that the host
> > implementations will conform to what the network operator would
> > prefer, and
> > you need to test.
>
> I can configure OS-X statically, so, that simply isn't true.
>
> What is true is that there are many implementations which do not (yet)
> support DHCPv6. That is not the same as "don't support anything
> else".
>
Here are a couple of implementations of DHCPv6, including one that also
works under Windows. I played with one of them on my Linux boxes a
while back (I can't remember exactly which one), and it just worked:
https://fedorahosted.org/dhcpv6/
http://klub.com.pl/dhcpv6/
Regards,
Mark.
