[167841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: turning on comcast v6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Dec 30 20:05:02 2013
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <CB7D35F3-03F8-460B-A3E4-D9E9C32704E2@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 20:05:10 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>,
Jamie Bowden <jamie@photon.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 30, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> I have yet to see a use case from enterprise that actually requires =
RIO or default route in DHCPv6, and I have seen many many use cases.
>=20
> Most of them are, actually, better solved through education, so I tend =
to focus my efforts in that area.
>=20
> If you can find someone who wants to pay me to plead the enterprise =
cases to the IETF, I suppose I might be interested in that job if it =
came with the right offer, but for now, that=92s not what I get paid to =
do.
The kinky layer-2 stuff I've seen some places do tells me they won't be =
able to deploy IPv6 without it. =20
I think the key here is "feature parity" and the whole "96 more bits no =
magic" aspect. The option is low hanging fruit to solve a problem. =
Perhaps it's just a conceptual problem (eg: DHCPv4 gives me option #4. =
I should have a comparable option# in IPv6!).
While I may not need option #37 (or folks may not use it), sending a RS =
in addition to DHCPv6 request is two steps in host configuration, =
whereas one should be able to suffice (perhaps).
It's also about authorization though, I could get a RA back from the RS =
from an unexpected (rogue) device in the same way I could see a rogue =
DHCP response as well. I have logging on my DHCP server, but I don't =
have that capability from a RA/RS stance. One is central (but perhaps =
relayed), the other is local (and never relayed).
Seems a lot of emails over something simple that's not much creep and =
just "parity".
(enjoy other great options here: =
http://www.iana.org/assignments/bootp-dhcp-parameters/bootp-dhcp-parameter=
s.xhtml#options .. I need my quotes server for IPv6 via DHCPv6 too).
- Jared=
