On 28-sep-2007, at 20:00, DE JUAN HUARTE FEDERICO wrote:
If a network administrator decides to set the M bit meaning that it
intends to always manage the address configuration, can he expect
all hosts to support the DHCP functionality?
In other words, is DHCP a MUST implement for IPv6 hosts?
Note that these are separate questions. The latter has already been
answered.
As to the former: no, it's certainly not true that all hosts support
DHCP. And the ones that do, may support one, two or three of the
following capabilities:
- other configuration (such as DNS server addresses)
- prefix delegation
- address assignment
I would be interested in hearing about anyone actually using DHCPv6
address assignment. Two years ago when I wrote my book about IPv6 I
couldn't find any servers or clients that supported this. I gather
this has changed, but I'm not sure to what degree.
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