[141969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 15 01:46:30 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <op.vw3eel1dtfhldh@rbeam.xactional.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:41:41 -0700
To: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 14, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Ricky Beam wrote:
> 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?
>=20
> Poorly designed network plus poorly designed software... I don't know =
which chicken came first, and it doesn't matter.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> --Ricky
Sounds great, but, sometimes proprietary vertical software is a lot =
harder to move forward than
you might think.
Owen
