[118421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Wed Oct 21 17:20:46 2009
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:20:05 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <D69795DA-DFFA-4B4F-BA38-655A7FC83541@muada.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 18 okt 2009, at 10:03, Andy Davidson wrote:
>
>> Support default-routing options for DHCPv6 !
>
> This would be a big mistake. Fate sharing between the device that
> advertises the presence of a router and the device that forwards packets
> makes RAs much more robust than DHCPv4. And DHCPv6 is just a case of
> very bad design, don't expect it to work well without bending over
> backwards even farther than you're used to with DHCPv4. It's time for
> this DHC stuff to reach its final resting place.
Then don't use it. That's why it's called an Option :)
However some of us actually need to use this stuff and sometimes
in ways not imagined by the IETF.
- Kevin
