[118784] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Wed Oct 28 20:10:14 2009
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:39:28 +1030
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2hbtj5bpd.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Amen to that Randy.
MMC
Randy Bush wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>> No, what we want are better first hop redundancy protocols, and DHCP for
>> v6, so that everyone who has extracted any value from DHCP in their toolkit
>> can continue to do so, and roll out v6 !
>>
>
> no. what we need is more religious v6 fanatics to make use of v6 hard
> to roll out on existing networks. after all, v6 is soooo wonderful we
> should be happy to double our opex for the privilege of using such a
> fantastic protocol.
>
> v6 fanaticism has done vastly more damage to v6 deployment than the v6
> haters. arrogance kills.
>
> randy
>
>
