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Re: SLAAC vs DHCPv6 (Re: RFC4941bis: consequences of many addresses for the network)

Simon Hobson <linux@thehobsons.co.uk> Sun, 26 January 2020 20:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: SLAAC vs DHCPv6 (Re: RFC4941bis: consequences of many addresses for the network)
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Gyan Mishra <hayabusagsm@gmail.com> wrote:

> The beauty behind SLAAC is that it works “out of the box” PNP like features makes it very user friendly to initiatally deploy.

Remember that DHCP for IPv4 generally works "out of the box" for most users. Certainly in the SOHO market, the presence of a built in, auto-configured, and enabled DHCP server in the route means that the user just "plugs it in and it works". By the time you get to a level of network complexity where that isn't the case, then there is normally a network admin either on the staff or hired n as needed.

If that isn't working reliably for users in the IPv6 world then that suggests the various components needed haven't reached the same level of completeness & correctness "mostly" available in the IPv4 world. It isn't an argument that DHCPv6 "doesn't work".

Simon

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