[118303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Anderson)
Sun Oct 18 19:16:08 2009
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:15:12 -0400
From: Chuck Anderson <cra@WPI.EDU>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 01:29:54PM -0400, TJ wrote:
> You say hacks, others see it as relatively-speaking simple additions of more
> functionality.
> You can define any options you want for DHCPv6, write a draft and get
> community support.
> I don't see how that ("continuously evolving DHCPv6 hacks") is any better
> than what is happening with RAs?
The difference is that I don't have to wait for my switch/router
vendor to implement RA extensions, I can just implement it myself in
an open source DHCPv6 server. Software that is embedded in hardware
is very hard to get changed.
