On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 07:01 -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
> >> also, do not underestimate the co$t of the of operational change to move
> >> from dhcp4 to nd/ra.  folk who want to keep dns and ip audit may have to
> >> go static without dhcp6.  another non-trivial barrier to ipv6 deployment.
> > Randy, could you elaborate please? Not sure I see what you are getting
> > at. Do you mean that if people do not use DHCPv6, they will have a
> > problem tracking which IP addresses are in use?
> 
> for audit purposes, one wants to know which host did the dirty on
> wednesday at 17:23.  most large enterprises base firewall rules on ip
> address.  blah blah blah.

Hm. Any host can take an address in its subnet - i.e. bypass DHCP. This
is as true of IPv6 as it is of IPv4. Any host that does SLAAC is
"bypassing" DHCPv6. So something has to watch the DHCP traffic and
dynamically permit addresses that have been allocated via DHCP. Is it
that step that concerns you? I.e., if hosts are doing SLAAC their DHCP
activity doesn't exist, so instead hosts will have to be assigned static
addresses and permitted in firewalls etc statically?

I don't want to set up a straw man here; I'm genuinely interested, but
having trouble joining the dots from your two messages.

Regards, K.

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