[c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks

[Alexander Clouter]

sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
>
>> With IPv6 you can get rid of DHCP, forget VPN's, forget DDNS, forget 
>> HSRP, and most importantly you no longer need NATs that understand every 
>> protocol that runs through it and so remove a possible single point of 
>> failure.
> 
> Some of us would disagree rather strongly with one or more of those
> points. For instance, for us DHCPv6 is a hard requirement.
> 
Why the hard requirement?  Is this for a MAC<->IP association table?  
I'm working on a method (might not work mind you) to make a SLAAC 
network forfill this requirement...I have to so we meet our upstream 
AUP requirements but running DHCPv6 kinda misses the point for why you 
try to deploy IPv6. :)

If it's for service discovery, that should be via DNS or better still 
multicast.  However I would kill for PXE booting IPv6, no practical
reasoning there though.

Cheers

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Alexander Clouter
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