On 21/09/10 3:41 PM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" <swm...@swm.pp.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
>> I think the technical issue there is that ND and RA were designed as a
>> package, and you certainly can't run without ND.
>
> Well, the DHCPv6 standard can be changed to hand out information so ND
> isn't needed. This is what I had in mind. This would remove the need for
> the whole RA/ND/RS package completely.
=> Before getting into the merits of your idea, why do you want to do that?
A pointer to some requirements or an email with the foreseen benefits would
be useful.
Hesham
>
>> I'm just wondering how many years it will be before SAVI is an
>> off-the-shelf multivendor solution.
>
> There are already several vendors on their list with full or partial
> support. Also, some SAVI functions has been around for 5-10 years for some
> vendors, what they're doing is less to invent new IPv4 functions but to
> actually make them a standard and document them.
>
> IPv6 is another ballgame, there new stuff is happening.
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