Re: [Softwires] [dhcwg] Is tunnelling DHCP multicast messages in 6rd unicast tunnel to BR acceptable for DHCP redundancy?//re: About draft-guo-softwire-6rd-ipv6-config-00

Le 9 sept. 2010 à 07:01, Mark Townsley a écrit :

> On 8/16/10 3:29 AM, Xu Xiaohu wrote:

>> ...
>> However, the BR itself (no matter as a relay agent or a DHCP server) is a
>> single point of failure, especially in the case where the DHCP service on
>> the BR is unavailable while the route for it (anycast address) is still OK. 
> 
> ...
> We're talking about stateless
> DHCP operation here, so *all* the BRs in the SP network could run this
> (indeed, all would have to if addressed via the anycast address that 6rd
> uses to reach the BRs since you don't know in advance which one you
> would reach). As long as all participating BRs have the server or relay
> function, I see no single point of failure problem.

+1


> 
> - Mark
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