Re: Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Markku Savela
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoiding DAD doesn't sound like a good goal to me. It means that the system _assumes_ that the rest of the world is perfect and never has any problems. Let me rephrase: making DAD more efficient. If there's a DHCP server present that

RE: Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
: Re: Rethinking autoconfig,was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6 From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Avoiding DAD doesn't sound like a good goal to me. It means that the system _assumes_ that the rest of the world is perfect and never has any problems. Let me rephrase

Re: Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 21-aug-2007, at 13:02, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote: And, there's always the case where the DHCP server has lost it memory (i.e. disk) - in that case it would have no idea what was or was not leased. Yes, the server would have to tell nodes to do DAD until all the leases from before the

Re: Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6

2007-08-21 Thread James Carlson
Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino writes: ranti wonder how many of those who are voicing opinion here are actually using IPv6 in a daily basis./rant I am. Does that help? -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W

RE: Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Bernie Volz \(volz\)
Message- From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7:26 AM To: Bernie Volz (volz) Cc: Markku Savela; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6 On 21-aug-2007, at 13:02, Bernie Volz ((volz)) wrote

Rethinking autoconfig, was Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6

2007-08-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17-aug-2007, at 22:09, james woodyatt wrote: To stop unnecessary DHCP traffic. [...] I think what we're seeing here is a vocal faction of the community who believe that DHCP discovery multicasts are always necessary, whether RA is present or not, and whether M=0 or M=1, despite the