[141962] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Jun 14 21:00:19 2011
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:00:11 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <60B7F9A9-17FC-473F-9FD8-E118F52514FE@muada.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:44:22 -0400, Iljitsch van Beijnum
<iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
> BTW, does this broken software run over IPv6, anyway?
Poorly designed network plus poorly designed software... I don't know
which chicken came first, and it doesn't matter.
IPv6 is totally different barnyard. Build the v6 network properly -- one
gateway (one router, vrrp, whatever) -- and retool the software properly.
IPv6 doesn't have a broadcast address; as such if the software is setup to
use an appropriate multicast target (presumably in "user defined" space),
then it'll talk to exactly the right machines, and it's routable.
--Ricky
