On Nov 14, 2011, at 3:55 PM, "Mohacsi Janos" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think in reality it will not be very easy to implement all these things. > Some Operating System might implement RA(SEND), some the Secure DHCP, some > none of above. . The operator should operate the network consistently: - same > information all the relevant channel..... This preferential treatment can > give some protections against malicious activity or misconfiguration.
This is true, but the problem is that the RA may be trustworthy and DHCP not, or vice versa. So it's not safe to assume that the information you get from each one is trustworthy, even though of course on a good network it should be. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
