On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bound, Jim wrote:
> In addition the Enterprise wireline networks and IT are not going to
> give up stateful control with servers and NAS in their networks for a
> long time with IPv6 is my intelligence from my work with users.  

Are servers and NAS configured with DHCPv4 today?

Not that I know of, we certainly don't do it (even though we use DHCPv4
for most workstations).  Of course, that's possible, e.g. by identifying
MAC-address in the servers etc., but I'm not sure if all that many folks
do it.

Don't underestimate the power of an admin doing manual 
configuration. :-)

So, my point is that there's a lot more to it than just "stateful" or
"stateless".

The critical point, IMO, is making the nodes able to easily configure
other parameters they'd like, using DHCP-lite, or other mechanisms like
that.  Few people prefer to punch all of that in manually.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings


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