[141868] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Sun Jun 12 21:30:03 2011
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 18:29:18 -0700
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In a message written on Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:12:02PM +0200, Iljitsch van=
Beijnum wrote:
> The IPv4 host does this once and gets its lease. If there is no DHCPv6 se=
rver then DHCPv6 clients would keep broadcasting forever. Not a good thing.
DHCP today uses an exponential backoff if there is no response, I don't
see why that can't be kept in IPv6. Plus I wonder how long users would
keep on machines that get no useable network connectivity. =20
I really think the number of broadcast packets is a total non-issue.
--=20
Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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