[147787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Wed Dec 21 20:39:14 2011
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:38:08 -0500
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAE+sBxgt04Myw-MY_pck6=fS52uY25LA+vttsy0iXLrvPJBrHQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Ravi Duggal wrote:
> We thus have draft-droms-dhc-dhcpv6-default-router-00 that extends
> DHCPv6 to do what RA does. And now, we have
> draft-bcd-6man-ntp-server-ra-opt-00.txt that extends RA to advertise
> the NTP information that is currently done via DHCPv6.
>
> My question is, that which then is the more preferred option for the
> operators?
In many environments RA is a catastrophic disaster. Some operators need
to be able to do everything with RA turned off on routers, disabled on
hosts and filtered on switches.
- Kevin
