Hi,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:25:20PM -0700, Ralph Droms wrote:
There is one way in which RAs involve less overhead - they can use
multicast to carry all the options in one message rather than use
individual message exchanges for each host.
Another nice benefit of RAs is that unsolicited RAs can be used to
add new prefix information (add prefix, deprecate prefix), which
becomes
active right away - while DHCP information will only be refreshed
upon,
uh, client-initiated refresh.
Please accept that RA is there to stay, and that this infighting
between
the two groups ("who needs RA when you can have DHCP!!!") is not going
to help. The IETF has solidly messed up this part of IPv6 by delaying
things for 10 years or so...
"real world speaking",
Gert Doering
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