Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-30 Thread Markus Hanauska
On 2011-05-23, at 23:56 , Mark Smith wrote: Christopher Morrow christopher.mor...@gmail.com writes: Just say that at startup time, invoke SLAAC DHCPv6 both. Then use whatever is available. That would have been simple and predictable. (And avoided 10GB of mailing list discussion!) I'm

Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Mon, 30 May 2011 12:47:19 +0200 you wrote: Conflict resolution is not really necessary. What kind of conflict do you have to solve? If a network runs a DHCPv6 server that also hands out addresses, th e network operators probably want people to use DHCPv6 over SLAAC, so if a

Re: [ipv6] Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-30 Thread Ray Hunter
Message: 2 Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 12:47:19 +0200 From: Markus Hanauska hanau...@equinux.de To: Mark Smith i...@69706e6720323030352d30312d31340a.nosense.org Cc: Thomas Narten nar...@us.ibm.com, ipv6@ietf.org ipv6@ietf.org, Ralph Droms rdroms.i...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Node Requirements:

Re: Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD

2011-05-30 Thread Philip Homburg
In your letter dated Mon, 30 May 2011 12:47:19 +0200 you wrote: Then a node has both, a SLAAC address and a DHCPv6 address. Where is the probl em? The only problem I can think of is the issue I was trying to discuss here a couple of weeks ago: An address collision between SLAAC addresses and

Multiple addresses [was Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD]

2011-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ray, On 2011-05-31 08:05, Ray Hunter wrote: ... Which source address (SLAAC/DHCPv6) would be used by the client for an outbound session if a SLAAC address and a DHCPv6 were both configured on the same link and with the same prefix, in the absence of a flag? Whichever RFC3484bis or the local

Re: Multiple addresses [was Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD]

2011-05-30 Thread Fred Baker
On May 30, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: For example, setting the DSCP *as a function of the source address* makes me cringe. We're going to have to get used to the fact that IP addresses are not constants. good grief. The only reasonable use of a DSCP is to identify the set of

Re: Multiple addresses [was Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD]

2011-05-30 Thread Ray Hunter
This is danger of going off topic I know (maybe it should go in v6ops), but it's important to me to be able to understand the consequences of the discussion, so please bear with me. It's definitely going to become an operational FAQ, unless it is very clear whether/how a network operator can

Re: Multiple addresses [was Node Requirements: Elevating DHCPv6 from MAY to SHOULD]

2011-05-30 Thread Fred Baker
On May 30, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Ray Hunter wrote: This is danger of going off topic I know (maybe it should go in v6ops), but it's important to me to be able to understand the consequences of the discussion, so please bear with me. It's definitely going to become an operational FAQ, unless