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Re: quietly....
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 23:02:16 -0600
On 2/1/2011 9:51 PM, Dave Israel wrote:
They were features dreamed up by academics, theoreticians, and purists, and opposed by operators.
You mean like the lack of Default Router in DHCPv6?Don't get me wrong. I love RA. However, it is NOT a universal tool, and there are cases where Default Router via DHCPv6 would be more appropriate and easier to manage.
Case in point. If I hand out IA_NA or IA_TA to directly connected DSL hosts or CPEs, I have no need of RA. In addition, the load on my router is increased by having to send RA to 3000+ interfaces, something that is absolutely not necessary in my deployment. I would even go as far to say that Default Router would be a good stateless option to hand out along with the DNS servers when customers do SLAAC with me.
I have also now seen 2 different vendor DSL modems which when not using PPPoE require a manually entered default router (ie, no RA support).
Jack
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- Re: quietly.... Jared Mauch (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 04)
- Re: quietly.... Mark Andrews (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Karl Auer (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Chris Adams (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Dave Israel (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Jack Bates (Feb 01)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... John Payne (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Owen DeLong (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... John Payne (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Brian Johnson (Feb 02)
- Re: quietly.... Dave Israel (Feb 02)
- RE: quietly.... Brian Johnson (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Jon Lewis (Feb 03)
- Re: quietly.... Jay Ashworth (Feb 03)
- RE: quietly.... Matthew Huff (Feb 03)