[167603] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale W. Carder)
Fri Dec 20 11:51:49 2013
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:51:27 -0600
From: "Dale W. Carder" <dwcarder@wisc.edu>
To: Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>
In-reply-to: <465966A5F5B867419F604CD3E604C1E55932A93B@PRA-DCA-MAIL.pra.ray.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thus spake Jamie Bowden (jamie@photon.com) on Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:07:27PM +0000:
> > From: Lee Howard [mailto:Lee@asgard.org]
> > On 12/20/13 7:36 AM, "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com> wrote:
> > >> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
>
>
> > >> I'm almost afraid to ask about the phrase "add-default-route=yes" in the
> > >> dhcp-client configuration. That seems wrong on the face of it since you
> > >> should be getting your routing information from RA and not DHCP.
>
> > >No, no, no, a thousand times no. I'm sure RA is great for small SOHO
> > >networks and for ISPs as a means to hand out resources, but in a
> > >corporate environment, we hate you. How many times do the IPv6 people
> > >have to hear that until DHCPv6 reaches feature parity with DCHPv4, IPv6
> > >is dead to enterprise networks?
Strange, I have an enterprise network with some segments running ipv6 for
over a decade ;-)
> > "Parity" isn't enough information; what features are missing? RA is part
> > of IPv6, but you don't have to use SLAAC.
> > I'd say it's the DHC people who need to hear it, not the IPv6 people, but
> > YMMV.
>
> I have a question. Why does DHCP hand out router, net mask, broadcast address, etc. in IPv4; why don't we all just use RIP and be done with it?
I think you mean IRDP/rfc1256. We used to run quite a bit of that, too.
Dale
