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

Scott Granados gsgranados at comcast.net
Thu Aug 27 11:56:19 EDT 2009


That and having the free IPV6 porn as a motivator sooner might have helped 
too.;)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Hilliard" <nick at inex.ie>
To: "Gert Doering" <gert at greenie.muc.de>
Cc: <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 7:01 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IPV6 in general was Re: Large networks


> On 27/08/2009 14:13, Gert Doering wrote:
>> (OTOH: if you plug your laptop with 'a random choice of IPv6-enabled
>> operating system' into an IPv6 only network with DHCPv6, does it work?
>> I seem to remember that MacOS X doesn't do any DHCPv6, just SLAAC and
>> mDNS...)
>
> I'm not pointing fingers or anything:  just noting that in the 12 years 
> that I've been poking around with ipv6, we don't yet have functional 
> auto-configuration - which I note in passing was one of the supposed 
> selling points of ipv6 in the first place.
>
> I'm still firmly of the opinion that this problem would have been solved 
> years ago if the connectivity at ietf meetings was ipv6 only.
>
> Nick
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