Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 15 April 2014 03:15 UTC

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