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Re: problem statement [was Re: New Version Notification for draft-hinden-ipv4flag-00.txt]

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Mon, 20 November 2017 07:28 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 16:28:30 +0900
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Subject: Re: problem statement [was Re: New Version Notification for draft-hinden-ipv4flag-00.txt]
To: Jen Linkova <furry13@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Jen Linkova <furry13@gmail.com> wrote:

> The idea of using a protocol X to tell device 'there is no protocol X
> on this link' sounds very entertaining ;)
> If I run a single-stack network I do not want to configure IPv4
> addresses, dhcp relays etc on v6-only interfaces
> and most likely I have no desire to run DHCPv4 for those segments. I
> might not even allow v4 traffic on the link at all
> (as it reduces the attack surface).
>

Sure. But you wouldn't need complicated infrastructure for this - if all
that's necessary is to respond to a DHCPv4 request with a canned "no DHCPv4
here" packet that is always the same, that's a lot easier to deploy than a
full DHCPv4 infrastructure.

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