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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Tue Jun 14 04:48:29 2011

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:48:23 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <B9A69E48-4E32-43FA-A738-0CD398763BFD@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:

> ND would be a far more frequent occurrence than DHCP requests.

Of course, it was only partly related to the discussion, most likely the 
network which has problem with multicast would break first because of ND, 
not because of DHCPv6 requests.

> Also, I tend to doubt that ANYONE would do DHCP on an exchange point 
> network, so, it's not exactly an applicable example environment.

It's the largest IPv6 enabled L2 domain I've experienced :P

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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