[141921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 14 12:05:57 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106141047110.26305@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:02:18 -0700
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:48 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Owen DeLong wrote:
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>> ND would be a far more frequent occurrence than DHCP requests.
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> 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.
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>> Also, I tend to doubt that ANYONE would do DHCP on an exchange point =
network, so, it's not exactly an applicable example environment.
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> It's the largest IPv6 enabled L2 domain I've experienced :P
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Indeed, it tends to be a perversely large L2 domain, but, not one where =
DHCP would likely occur.
That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2 =
domain outside of an
exchange point.
Owen
