[138026] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Sun Feb 27 11:56:52 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110227.163543.74686837.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:45:53 +0000
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 27 Feb 2011, at 15:35, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>>> Does anybody have anything neat to keep logs of what host gets what =
ipv6=20
>>> address in an SLAAC environment?
>>=20
>> You'd have to correlate ND information in the router to some kind of=20=
>> record of who has what MAC address at any given time. With SLAAC the =
host=20
>> doesn't "get" an IPv6 address, it "takes" one.
>>=20
>>> This is often required for legislation compliance. DHCP does this =
well.
>>=20
>> Which is one of the reasons why some of us want DHCPv6 support in =
hosts.
>=20
> Agreed. In our environment Mac OSX hosts will either have to get the
> necessary DHCPv6 functionality, or the customer will have to buy a=20
> router (which can then get DHCPv6 PD from us, and offer RA/SLAAC on
> the LAN side).
>=20
> SLAAC for our ISP customers just won't happen, for a lot of reasons.
I really do not get the lack of DHCPv6, the Apple 'it should be easy' is =
all very well and good, but it really does not help those people who =
have to run the networks at all.=20
So for the foreseeable future SLAAC seems to be a requirement especially =
for WiFi operators for example who will have to support a multitude of =
unknown hosts. Has anybody found a usable method of achieving IPv6 =
address logs for such networks or will I just have to write some awful =
sniffer that spits out into a database that later on I'll have to =
correlate with WiFi AP RADIUS logs?
--
Leigh Porter
