[112034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Confusion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Wed Feb 18 15:43:38 2009
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:42:05 +0100 (CET)
To: nanog@daork.net
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <1744F5DC-5E02-41DA-9473-4753A2898B8F@daork.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> > 2) Some end-node box with a IPv6 stack from "Joe's Software Emporium
> > and
> > Bait-n-Tackle" sees an RA packet, and concludes that since RA and
> > DHCPv6
> > are mutually exclusive, to ignore any DHCPv6 packets it sees, and
> > hilarity
> > ensues.
>
>
> They are not mutually exclusive, DHCPv6 *requires* RA.
In your previous Nanog message you said:
> DHCPv6 can operate without RA now.
Please make up your mind.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
