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Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Dec 21 20:50:50 2011

To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:18:05 PST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:48:00 -0500
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

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On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:18:05 PST, Owen DeLong said:
> Perhaps you have not, but, others have. I have seen environments where
> SLAAC is much more useful than DHCPv6. I've seen environments where
> DHCPv6 is needed.

OK, I'll name names.  If you have end users still running WinXP, getting them
at least somewhat working under SLAAC/DHCPv4 is a lot less headache than trying
to DHCPv6 them.

Anybody managed to stamp out WinXP in their end user population yet?

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