[email protected] 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 -- Alexander Clouter .sigmonster says: Avert misunderstanding by calm, poise, and balance. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
