[147877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Sat Dec 24 03:50:38 2011
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:52:10 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Michael Sinatra <michael@rancid.berkeley.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4EF5883D.8060807@rancid.berkeley.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Michael Sinatra wrote:
>> That's a configuration of RA, not DHCPv6.
>
> So? If DHCPv6 had default route capability you wouldn't need RA at all.
According to the end to end principle that hosts do everything,
default router is a bad idea and you should better snoop IGP,
which is the only solution for multihomed cases.
>> local DHCPv6 server should be running locally by default.
>
> If you're talking about a little CPE router, maybe. If you're talking
> about an enterprise core router, then no.
The context of the thread is:
> Glen Kent wrote:
>> While in some environments, typically with small number of devices,
>> its indispensable. Small businesses may not want the complexity of
>> setting up a central server (for DHCP) - SLAAC works very well in such
>> environments.
Masataka Ohta
