[141692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Jun 10 10:41:17 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110610142802.GA21261@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:37:24 +0200
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 10 jun 2011, at 16:28, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>> Ok, so now we've identified the problem.
>> How exactly does adding default gateway information to DHCPv6 solve =
this problem?
> Please go back and re-read my original scenario and think about it.
I don't have to, as you restate pretty much all of it here...
So we agree on the problem. Now the only thing we have to do is come up =
with a solution that everybody likes. In a greenfield situation that =
solution could be "compile DHCPv4 for 128 bits" but guess what, we have =
"legacy" IPv6 systems that aren't compatible with that, and we want =
results before those systems are all killed off.=
