Hi, * Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> [2009-08-27 11:31:08+0200]: > > sth...@nethelp.no writes: > > >> > Some of us would disagree rather strongly with one or more of those > >> > points. For instance, for us DHCPv6 is a hard requirement. > >> > > >> Why the hard requirement? Is this for a MAC<->IP association table? > >> I'm working on a method (might not work mind you) to make a SLAAC > >> network forfill this requirement...I have to so we meet our upstream > >> AUP requirements but running DHCPv6 kinda misses the point for why you > >> try to deploy IPv6. :) > > > > This is an old discussion, and has been rehashed a number of times on > > various DHCP and IPv6 mailing lists. In any case: > > > > - SLAAC cannot distribute all the parameters that DHCP distributes to > > customers today. Example of parameters needed: DNS servers, domain > > name, NTP servers, ... > > No it can't, but personally I see that as a feature :-) > > We need to publish DNS servers, but RFC 5006 solves that. The other > DHCP options are mostly unecessary bloat. Are there really that many > DHCP clients doing anything useful with the NTP option? I guess you may > have set-top boxes using it, but those can just as well be pre-configured > with the well-known DNS name of your NTP servers. > Service discovery (SLP, SDP and DNS based) and multicast (NTP especially) has been with us for years. I think this is the problem people have with IPv6, their mindset is stuck in IPv4 for a lot of things.
> > - DHCP lets us control customer address allocation from one central > > point, instead of having to individually configure routers. > > You can do that with SLAAC too, e.g. by using RADIUS. > > We'll of course use DHCPv6 too, mostly because we want prefix > delegation. But I still think SLAAC is useful in some settings, even > for ISPs. I want both. > I do not think SLAAC was ever intended for the ISP<->CPE, I could not see how it could be used there. However for router<->node I cannot see why people are so against it. Obviously I'm in a minority so I'm going to disappear back into the Ether :) Cheers -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: God isn't dead. He just doesn't want to get involved. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/