> > Just how DO we get the message to the IETF that we need all the tools we > > have in v4 (DHCP, VRRP, etc) to work with RA turned off? > > You don't, because there isn't really a technical reason for turning off > RA.
I'm glad to see that several of the big vendors seem to disagree with you. - Cisco does RA as soon as an interface has an IPv6 address, but has a knob to disable RA (ipv6 nd ra suppress). - Juniper does *not* do RA as soon as an interface has an IPv6 address, it must be explicitly configured. So we are part way there - IPv6 can be used without RA. We just need DHCPv6 to work properly without RA. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no