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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Wed, 08 January 2014 21:00 UTC

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

randy