[111958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Ward)
Tue Feb 17 15:45:55 2009
From: Nathan Ward <nanog@daork.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090218070203.cecf99da.nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:45:44 +1300
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On 18/02/2009, at 9:32 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
> 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/
Installable implementations don't really count if this is something my
mother has to use. Perhaps an ISP gives customers a little "enabler"
app to run that installs a DHCPv6 client, but that sounds nasty.
Flashbacks to AOL/compuserve install disks.
SLAAC works out of the box right now for dual-stack hosts (ie. they
can get DNS resolvers on v4).
That is fine for the mean time, if you are planning to go IPv6-only to
end hosts then things are going to get hard, stick with IPv4 NAT for
now until OS X gets DHCPv6, and people have moved off XP and older OS
X boxes.
...or, until we have another way of getting resolvers that has
widespread adoption..
--
Nathan Ward
