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Re: ARIN-2011-1: ARIN Inter-RIR Transfers - Last Call (expires in one week)


From: Nick Hilliard <nick () foobar org>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 16:04:31 +0000

On 11/11/2011 15:56, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
And yes, there's some RA/DHCP issues - but the *practical* upshot is that it's
hard to DHCP a v6-only host and get stuff like DNS and NTP servers to them.

another practical upshot is that switch manufacturers now need to support both RA Guard and DHCPv6 snooping instead of just a single protocol like we have in ipv4. That is, unless you're ok with the idea of arbitrary priority RA packets floating around your network.

e.g. pages 9-16 of:

http://ripe63.ripe.net/presentations/220-ripe63_techteam.pdf

Nick


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