Hi Ralph,

On 10-09-08 12:17 PM, Ralph Droms wrote:
Nit: seems unlikely to me you will have any XP devices running IPv6-only; if my 
understanding of the situation is correct, such a device requires manual 
installation of the IPv6 stack and still requires IPv4 for DNS.

You are absolutely right. The XP devices are SLAAC-only for IPv6 as I said, but they are dual-stacked. So even in the absence of IPv6 connectivity they will still have IPv4 connectivity.

Thanks
Suresh



- Ralph

On Sep 8, 2010, at 5:36 PM 9/8/10, Suresh Krishnan wrote:

Hi Doug,

On 10-09-08 02:02 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
On 09/07/2010 06:38 AM, JOSHI, SHRINIVAS ASHOK (SHRINIVAS ASHOK) wrote:
5.  Creating an alternative to DHCPv6 ?

One SLAAC is defined to do functionality similar to DHCP (including
per host prefixes/options) how long before options are added so SLAAC
becomes an alternative to DHCPv6 ?
This is the basis of my opposition to adopting the draft (expressed neatly 
here, as well as by other authors in this thread).
As I said in my response to Shree, the goal is to provide support for 
SLAAC-only IPv6 clients. It is not a practical option to require support for 
stateful DHCPv6 for clients that are no longer supported (e.g. XP). I agree 
that going forward, stateful DHCPv6 will be a solution for this problem.

Thanks
Suresh

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