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Re: RFC 5006 status

Le 19 mars 2010 à 16:55, Behcet Sarikaya a écrit :

> 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.

Well noted.
The value of the solution is mainly for "very commonly used" MULTIPOINT links ;-)

RD