[141847] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Sun Jun 12 14:12:59 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110612134501.GA25078@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:12:02 +0200
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12 jun 2011, at 15:45, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>> Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many =
multicasts which can seriously degrade wifi performance.
> Huh? This is no worse than IPv4 where a host comes up and sends a
> subnet-broadcast to get DHCP.
The IPv4 host does this once and gets its lease. If there is no DHCPv6 =
server then DHCPv6 clients would keep broadcasting forever. Not a good =
thing.
