On Sep 10, 2010, at 6:44 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> SLAAC is fine for home networks (and some enterprise networks). > > That's exactly what (IMHO) we need to preserve, which has the side effect > that it's going to be the default mechanism for IPv6 nodes shipped out into > the SOHO market. I expect DHCPv6 to be the default for nodes shipped into the > ISP and large enterprise market.
That would actually materially surprise me, as the same systems are delivered to both markets. What I observe is that Windows 7, Macintosh, and *nix all default to some variant of SLAAC, and some of them have the ability to be configured for DHCPv6. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
