[138025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Feb 27 10:35:49 2011
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:35:43 +0100 (CET)
To: swmike@swm.pp.se
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.1102271620370.11974@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > Does anybody have anything neat to keep logs of what host gets what ipv6
> > address in an SLAAC environment?
>
> You'd have to correlate ND information in the router to some kind of
> record of who has what MAC address at any given time. With SLAAC the host
> doesn't "get" an IPv6 address, it "takes" one.
>
> > This is often required for legislation compliance. DHCP does this well.
>
> Which is one of the reasons why some of us want DHCPv6 support in hosts.
Agreed. In our environment Mac OSX hosts will either have to get the
necessary DHCPv6 functionality, or the customer will have to buy a
router (which can then get DHCPv6 PD from us, and offer RA/SLAAC on
the LAN side).
SLAAC for our ISP customers just won't happen, for a lot of reasons.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
