[147791] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Thu Dec 22 02:50:24 2011
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:51:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <135180.1324518480@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Heh. I haven't manage to stamp out WinXP in _my_ usage.
Microsoft's "Services for Unix" doesn't run on on anything but the obsecenely
high-priced top-end versions of their newer releases. In addition to the
significantly increased hardware requirements to get the same "user app"
performance, this makes upgrading a 'show stopper'.
