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Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Tue, 15 April 2014 08:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft
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Hi,

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:15:23PM -0500, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 3:12 PM, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
> > There are at least 3 different IPv4 DHCP clients on "Unix", and the
> > author and maintainer of the IPv6 DHCP client that is installed might
> > not know which IPv4 DHCP client you're using.
> 
> This is not something to brag about.   Network configuration works
> badly on machines that operate this way.   I say this as the author
> of one of those DHCP clients.   This problem needs to be fixed, not
> papered over, and using it as an excuse to do the wrong thing in a
> protocol spec is absurd.

It's called "multiple independent implementations of the same spec", and
I'm not sure what's wrong about it.  Actually it's pretty good to have
alternatives and competition there, if one of the implementations is
buggy or lacking behind.

Yes, it would be even nicer if all these implementations would use
a common API so you could really just plug-replace them, and remote-control
them, all in the same way - but *that* is not "part of the spec".

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

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