[118451] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Thu Oct 22 06:21:14 2009
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <923D6971-6DEB-4EAE-AB37-8B69FB9A787B@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:20:11 +1100
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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:40 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> If, on the other hand, the REAL desire is to have a DHCP server break =20
> the tie in the selection between several routers that advertise their =20
> presence, that wouldn't be unreasonable.
The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if
multiple routers are sending the same preference level, but presumably
that would not happen in a well-tended network.
In any case, anywhere this is actually of vital importance, a routing
protocol would be in use.
Using the DHCP protocol to deliver information - about anything really -
is what it's *for*. That said, making clients depend utterly on the
presence of a working DHCP server for basic connectivity seems like a
backward step. Of course, different people have different ideas about
what constitutes "basic" connectivity.
> Stop trying to break the internet and I'll treat you like an adult.
Whoa! Tell you what, how about if I break it, and you get to choose
which piece you keep? [Bash, bash, thud. Ugh. Hm. It's tougher than it
looks!]
:-)
Regards, K.
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