On 2011-05-30, at 22:27 , Philip Homburg wrote: 

> If you are really worried about this, then I guess you can also just assign
> two prefixes to a single link and use one for SLAAC and the other for DHCPv6.

Of course this is possible, but this also means, that a node not doing DHCPv6 
(because it does not support it or because it is disabled on the node), will 
only get an address of the SLAAC prefix and thus has to go to through the 
network router to have its packets routed the other one. So even though both 
nodes are on the same physical network, all traffic has to pass through a 
router, instead of being exchanged directly between the two nodes. This means a 
lot of unnecessary load for the this router to route "local traffic".

Regards,
Markus
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