[141827] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sun Jun 12 07:05:34 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110612103544.GA25062@srv03.cluenet.de>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:04:41 +0200
To: Daniel Roesen <dr@cluenet.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12 jun 2011, at 12:35, Daniel Roesen wrote:
> Could you point to any RFC which implies or explicitly states that
> DHCPv6 MUST NOT be used in absence of RA with M and/or O=3D1?
But what's the alternative? Always run DHCPv6 even if there are no =
router advertisements or router advertisements with O=3D0, M=3D0?
Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many multicasts =
which can seriously degrade wifi performance.
And networks without RAs are very common. We call those networks =
"IPv4-only networks".
And in the current situation DHCPv6 without router advertisements is =
pointless because you may get an address, but you have no place to send =
your packets.=
