Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 07:55:02 +0200
From: Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| => I believe this is the DHCPv6 option, there is a DHCPv6 subset too
| (no draft?). IMHO the subset is better because it should not give
| the funny current situation where nobody wants to use DHCPv6 for
| its main purpose, address allocation, but for PD, DNS discovery, etc.
DHCP is a "Host Configuration" protocol - it happens that with v4,
the address is the most fundamental piece of required configuration,
so DHCP is seen as an address assignment protocol.
But host configuration is what it is called and that is what it is.
For v6, address config can be done other ways, so it is entirely reasonable
that DHCPv6 will come to be used for almost everything else, but that.
That's OK.
However, we certainly be assuming that everyone will run DHCP, that's
one way to configure almost anything, but we always need the other
way, for sites where there is no DHCP.
kre
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