On 29 Jan 2010, at 17:07, David Prall wrote: > So XP doesn't support IPv6 DHCP, nor do they support IPv6 DNS. Not sure > about the macintosh.
and I thought I was being clever pointing fec0:0:0:ffff::1, 2 and 3 to real DNSv6 servers and finding the "add dns" from within netsh only to be thwarted by an XP resolver that doesn't support IPV6 properly. On 29 Jan 2010, at 19:09, Alan Buxey wrote: > Hi, >> OK so looking at/listening to various recommendations, when allocating IPV6 >> addresses, stateless auto-configuration with DHCPv6 used to dish out the DNS >> servers and domain looks the most appealing. Since the IOS version we are >> using on our 6500s doesn't support IPV6 DHCP relaying (12.2(18)SXF13) I >> tried to set up a test using the 6500 itself to serve the DNS and domain >> information but I cannot get it to work. When I use the following >> configuration the clients are configured with appropriate v6 IPs and can get >> out into the IPV6 Internet, but no DNS or domain information is received. >> Turning on "debug ipv6 DHCP" yields no entries in the log at all for either >> an iMac or an XP laptop: am I missing some configuration? > > > DHCPv6 and stateless configuration are pretty much still very messy right now. > yes, DHCPv6 would be a direct replacement for clients on the v6 landscape but > not many clients support it.... > I'm starting to realise that... > worse, stateless configuration, whilst in a way elegant, hardly anything gets > handed over to it....eg DNS or NTP information . theres also no way to hand > over > any encrpytion or seed things eg for SeND - we've been in chats with people > about getting some nice extensions into the stateless RFC - it'd be > good/useful > to have these things sorted. > RFC 5006 looks promising, although it does seem to only mention DNS servers. > ..now...what are those IPv6 youtube addresses, I've got an hour to burn ;-) > alan wahoo! Ta. Michael -- _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
