On 10/20/2012 9:36 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote:
>> There is also the question of availability of DHCP software on smaller
>> platforms which have no SIM card. It may be easier to do this with ND
>> in smaller settings.
>
> The obvious conclusion to this argument is that a *lot* of DHCP
> functionality will be duplicated in ND. Is this where we want to go?
>
> I'm coming from the DHCP side of the argument. In my world DHCP is
> needed because it gives you a single place to handle dynamic address
> allocation, *and* it ties in with all sorts of support & backend
> systems.
>
> I am against adding lots of new ND functionality until we have DHCPv6
> that is considerably more feature complete. Some of this is probably
> coming (client MAC address), some of it is still being opposed for
> mostly religious reasons (e.g. running DHCP without RA).
>
> Steinar Haug, AS 2116
+1 on all counts.
Doug
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