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Re: RFC 5006 status

Hi Rémi,

Le 19 mars 2010 à 12:05, Syam Madanapalli a écrit :

> What's the 
> difference between running Stateless DHCPv6 vs carrying
> DHCP options in 
> ND messages?

As noted by Ralph (who was not arguing in favor of RAs, but 
> just stating a fact):
"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."

> Other differences can be 
> discussed, but there is at least this one.

Please note that in practice this difference of less overhead goes away if you consider very commonly used point-to-point links.


 
BTW, I removed long cc list and just kept v6ops because I think everybody is on this list already :-).

Regards,

Behcet