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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Barton)
Sun Jun 12 16:09:23 2011

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:08:37 -0700
From: Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <97623D46-87FA-4C9A-8AF8-A3023A2FE38F@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 6/12/2011 4:01 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> IPv6 address configuration is a house of cards. Touch it and it all comes crashing down. DHCPv6 has a number of significant flaws, and the interaction between DHCPv6 and router advertisements only barely makes sense.

Well, at least you're being honest here. :)


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