[147782] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Wed Dec 21 16:39:19 2011
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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:37:58 -1000
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Tomas Podermanski <tpoder@cis.vutbr.cz> =
wrote:
>> from my perspective the short answer for this never-ending story is:
>>
>> - SLAAC/RA is totally useless, does not bring any benefit at all
>> and should be removed from IPv6 specs
> I'm afraid you're about 10 years too late for this opinion to make
> much difference. ;-)
I won't go so far as to say SLAAC should be removed from the IPv6 spec
but it's never too late to deprecate a protocol that doesn't pan out.
I'm with Owen:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:58 AM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> Currently, most significant environments have to cobble together a comple=
te
> solution from remnants of SLAAC and DHCP. This is far from ideal.
> Far better for organizations to look at 2 complete solutions and pick the
> solution that works best for them in their environment.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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