On 2010-09-20 17:31, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> Thanks for that. Now, what is needed for those techniques to be >> fully deployable for IPv6, except work by the vendor(s)? Is there >> any work needed on the basic IPv6 standards? > > Well, I think what would help is to be able to run a DHCPv6 only > environment without RA/RS, it would also help if one didn't need NS > either. The whole L2 environment would need a lot less code, it > basically would only need to be able to filter the above mechanisms, not > inspect them.
I think the technical issue there is that ND and RA were designed as a package, and you certainly can't run without ND. [Historical note: the ND/RA design was done at a time when all we had deployed was ARP, because DHCP was not yet mature, and most of us were still configuring IPv4 hosts manually. ND/RA seemed like an enormous leap forward.] > >>> But as Fred also mentioned, SAVI WG is working in specifically this area >>> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/savi/charter/> >> >> Sure. Are you holding your breath? > > Well, duplicating work is probably a bad idea. They have running code, I > don't see why people who want to fix this shouldn't join them in their > effort. Am I missing something? I'm just wondering how many years it will be before SAVI is an off-the-shelf multivendor solution. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
