Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-14 Thread Simon Kelley
On 14/11/12 16:24, Jim Gettys wrote: > Please, let's not OD on DHCP in this thread: while I was making a point > about DHCP, I was really making a more general point about robustness in > homenet, and how to judge various proposals, more than specifically > attacking recursive DHCP-PD as a concept.

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-14 Thread Jim Gettys
Please, let's not OD on DHCP in this thread: while I was making a point about DHCP, I was really making a more general point about robustness in homenet, and how to judge various proposals, more than specifically attacking recursive DHCP-PD as a concept. Similarly, I think as another goal we have

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-14 Thread Simon Kelley
On 14/11/12 12:08, Teco Boot wrote: > >> The one-and-only DHCP server knows about all the prefixes delegated >> from the ISP and the relays know which particular prefix has been >> given to the local router by the routing protocol or AHCP. > I don't like a single DHCP server for multi-homed sites

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-14 Thread Teco Boot
Op 13 nov. 2012, om 21:19 heeft Simon Kelley het volgende geschreven: > On 13/11/12 19:04, Jim Gettys wrote: > >> >> So the recursive DHCP-PD scheme strikes me as something possibly very >> fragile. I really, really don't want to repeat the experience I had with >> having extra DHCP servers, an

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-13 Thread Ted Lemon
On Nov 13, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Jim Gettys wrote: > So the recursive DHCP-PD scheme strikes me as something possibly very > fragile. I really, really don't want to repeat the experience I had with > having extra DHCP servers, and I would guess few ISP's do either. It seems to me that using bad imp

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-13 Thread Simon Kelley
On 13/11/12 20:48, Victor Kuarsingh wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Simon Kelleywrote: Given that hosts are going to want to talk RA or DHCPv6, at least initially, one option down this route has the flood include the unicast address of a single, centralised DHCPv6 server, and routers r

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-13 Thread Victor Kuarsingh
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Simon Kelley wrote: > On 13/11/12 19:04, Jim Gettys wrote: > > >> So the recursive DHCP-PD scheme strikes me as something possibly very >> fragile. I really, really don't want to repeat the experience I had with >> having extra DHCP servers, and I would guess few I

Re: [homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-13 Thread Simon Kelley
On 13/11/12 19:04, Jim Gettys wrote: So the recursive DHCP-PD scheme strikes me as something possibly very fragile. I really, really don't want to repeat the experience I had with having extra DHCP servers, and I would guess few ISP's do either. It seems to me much more robust to flood the key

[homenet] Robustness in Homenet. (triggered by the DHCP-PD discussion).

2012-11-13 Thread Jim Gettys
I've been watching the discussion about recursive DHCPv6-PD with more than a little discomfort; I did not want to throw this bomb until the issue had been discussed in depth (as prefix delegation is a problem we must solve). The hardest problem I've ever had to debug in my home network (by far) wa