[138055] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Sun Feb 27 18:34:24 2011
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:34:13 -0800
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <8951E87B-D779-469E-BE3B-6DCC8089034E@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 02/27/2011 15:08, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 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.
Speaking as an OS implementor, no, please don't do that. :) Let SLAAC
be what it is, and give DHCPv6 feature parity with DHCPv4. Having all
options supported in both methods is N-squared complexity for OS
developers, never mind how difficult it's going to make actually using
the stuff.
Doug
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