Mohacsi Janos wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: >>>> 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP >>>> configuration with a single DHCP message exchange >>>> - if a host wants HCB, it sends an HCB request (Solicit) and >>>> receives HCB and/or ICB replies >>> >>> It would be even better to keep backward compatibility, i.e., not >>> require extensions to ICB-only DHCP servers to support Solicits. >>> Let's face it, those extensions always take time to specify, code >>> and deploy, the admins will have to wait for new versions, etc. >> >> What admins? Several posts in this thread indicate that there is >> little if any production deployment of DHCPv6 right now. >> > > This not true. There are several systems are using DHCPv6 to > distribute DNS server information via IPv6. We also use this > capability for more than one year in production.
Like I said, 'little ... production deployment'. > Keeping combatibility to some extent, is always a golden rule Agreed, but this case may be an exception to prove the rule. -- Mat -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
