[138050] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Feb 27 18:14:25 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <7187091.752.1298841943188.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:08:28 -0800
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Look, can we stop arguing about whether someone needs DHCP or not,
whether they need SLAAC or not. Let's just get both solutions to a =
mature
and useful state where a network administrator can pick the one that =
works
best for their environment and move on.
Devices, routers, OSs, etc. should support both. The IETF should stop =
letting
the two working groups focus on damaging the other protocol and we =
should
stop treating this as a competition or a battle and start treating it as =
options
to accomplish a task.
Owen
On Feb 27, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
> Yes I don't understand why we need DHCPv6, true RD did not have DNS =
information to pass, but that is fixed, no?
>=20
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Palmer" <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Sent: Sunday, 27 February, 2011 4:06:29 PM
> Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
>=20
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:56:33AM -0500, Ray Soucy wrote:
>> Mac OS X 10.7 does support RDNSS (RFC 5001) so it is able to get DNS
>> server information in an IPv6-only environment. Of course nobody =
else
>> has implemented that yet, making Apple a "special case" host once
>> again (I don't even think Cisco supports the option in their T series
>> yet).
>=20
> radvd and rdnssd work together on Linux nicely to provide RDNSS =
support.=20
> Works a treat.
>=20
> - Matt
>=20
