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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rhys Rhaven)
Fri Jun 10 17:31:02 2011

Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:30:49 -0500
From: Rhys Rhaven <rhys@rhavenindustrys.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20110610202758.GA38897@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

And here I thought with IPv6, we would have learned from our mistakes,
fixed those problems. We've had 15 years to think about it. I was
looking forward to a future where ICMPv6 might even be used.

At this point I'm looking forward to IPv6 being the bane of my career
for the next 5 years.

On 06/10/2011 03:27 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> IPv4 also had a similar feature, ICMP router discovery, RFC 1256.
> Works a little different than RA's do, but not a lot.  Have you ever
> seen it used?  I haven't.



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