Hi,
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:32:01PM -0700, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > As an operational person, this endless bickering between the RA camp and
> > the "what do you need RA for that, when DHCP can do this all along" has
> > FAIL stamped all over it.
>
> If you are meaning to blame the RA/DHCP discussions for
> the slow uptake of IPv6, I don't think that is correct.
Not alone so, of course. But the lack of standards and/or guidelines in
certain areas (RA/DHCP, multi6, selection of src+dst address pairs in the
face of multiple source and destination IPv6 addresses being available)
certainly didn't help.
As I said: you still can't run an IPv6-only network with the most
common client operating systems without manually configuring some
missing bits and pieces. Had some standards be available 5 years
earlier, most notably 5006, this might all be a non-issue today.
Let me repeat: I'm an operational person, and not a researcher or
vendor. We funny operational people are not searching for the "most
religiously perfect" solution for things. We need something that
*works*, and we need it in a timely fashion.
Gert Doering
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