[147904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Dec 26 14:47:10 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4EF8BBB2.60805@amplex.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:46:06 -0500
To: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 26, 2011, at 1:23 46PM, Mark Radabaugh wrote:
> On 12/26/11 12:56 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> On Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:32:46 EST, Ray Soucy said:
>>> 2011/12/26 Masataka Ohta<mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>:
>>>> And, if RA is obsoleted, which is a point of discussion, there
>>>> is no reason to keep so bloated ND only for address resolution.
>>> By who? Sources please.
>>> A few people on NANOG complaining about RA is pretty far from =
deprecation of RA.
>> Especially when some of the biggest IPv6 networks out there are still =
using
>> it pretty heavily.
>>=20
>> (C''mon you guys, *deploy* already. It's pretty sad when people are =
arguing
>> about stuff like this, and a frikkin' cow college out in the boonies =
pushing
>> 300-400mbits/sec of IPv6 off-campus is still a "large" deployment. =
It's
>> embarassing for the industry as a whole)
>>=20
>>=20
> Find me some decent consumer CPE and I would be more than happy to =
deploy IPv6. So far the choices I have found for consumer routers are =
pathetic. A fair number of them still have IPv4 issues.
Not quite what you're asking for, but I was very pleasantly surprised to =
see
that some (at least) Brother printers support IPv6. Progress...
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
