Suresh Krishnan wrote: > You are absolutely right. The XP devices are SLAAC-only for IPv6 as I > said, but they are dual-stacked. So even in the absence of IPv6 > connectivity they will still have IPv4 connectivity.
>From my perspective, I find this situation to be fundamentally intolerable, >but easy to fix. XP cannot be expected to only need IPv6 for simple in-home use. And at the same time, not much more than simple in-home use can really be expected to work correctly with SLAAC alone. Count me among those who want DHCPv6 to be supported in client OSs. My inclination would be to require DHCPv6 support, and to either have Microsoft provide it via Windows Update, or use third party software. Like in the old days. Industrial and military uses tend to stick with stable, tried and true OSs. So XP won't go away overnight. I suppose that by the same token, nor will IPv4, for precisely this sort of reason. Bert -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
