On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Thomas Narten wrote:
I'm not sure I understand the last part of the sentence... Does
it means that addresses configured via stateless address
autoconfiguration are -also- availabe via DHCP?
No, it means that if you don't invoke DHC to get addresses, you
won't be getting all the addresses the network is telling you it
thinks you need. That is, DHC is providing addresses that are
(presumably) not available via stateless addrconf, hence you should
use DHC to get them.
More to the point, if you are in a shop that has decided to allocate
addresses by DHCP, calculating an address via autoconfiguration is
the wrong answer. Not because it is politically correct or otherwise,
but because it is the policy of the network, and the IETF doesn't get
to decide that.
BTW, there is a lot of host configuration that is communicated via
DHCP that isn't the node address and isn't covered by
autoconfiguration. Whether or not I agree that address assignment by
DHCP is the right answer, not supporting the other is cutting one's
nose off to spite one's face.
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