[141900] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 13 20:45:51 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <1D63E941-92FA-408F-8F10-63A73077EF0E@muada.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:41:12 -0700
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 12 jun 2011, at 15:45, Leo Bicknell wrote:
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>>> Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many =
multicasts which can seriously degrade wifi performance.
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>> Huh? This is no worse than IPv4 where a host comes up and sends a
>> subnet-broadcast to get DHCP.
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> 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.
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Which is no worse than the behavior of an IPv4 host on a network without =
a DHCP server.
Owen
