[141938] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Jencks)
Tue Jun 14 14:02:54 2011
From: Ben Jencks <ben@bjencks.net>
In-Reply-To: <DCDA481C-BC93-40CC-B4CF-15C1541DE338@delong.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:00:35 -0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 14, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Then use RA and move on. However, please understand that yours
> is not the only environment and that there are real-world scenarios
> where having the router-guys dictate the host configuration is =
considered
> unacceptable at best.
This has always confused me. What aspect of host configuration is the =
router providing that's so problematic? The prefix, which has to match =
on the router and host in order for anything to work anyway? The =
indication to go use DHCPv6, which doesn't really add anything since you =
need to configure a DHCPv6 proxy anyway? There's just so little =
information in an RA, and the router needs to know it all anyway, that =
I'm having trouble understanding what environment would find this so =
horrifying.
-Ben
