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Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison-00.txt (fwd)

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Thu, 09 January 2014 08:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] New Version Notification for draft-yourtchenko-ra-dhcpv6-comparison-00.txt (fwd)
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Hi,

On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 06:00:07AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Your multi-million-dollar enterprise can do DHCPv6-based IPv6 address
> > assignment perfectly well today.  Client and server implementations
> > exist, and RFCs back that.
> >
> > The thing that can not be done today is "do that if you do not have RAs
> > on your network, that will tell the clients 'go to the DHCPv6 server
> > for address information, but route the packets to me'".
> 
> the multi-million-euro enterprise can continue to do ipv4.  and that's
> what they are doing.  we can stick our heads <fill in> and pretend that
> this is not a festering and embarrassing problem or we can fix it.

The problem statement given for the "multi-million-euro enterprise" was 
"they want to use DHCPv6!!!!"  (not "DHCPv6 without RA").

And they *can*.

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
-- 
have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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