>Five things? Really? My DHCP server hands out the following things to its >clients: > >Default Route >DNS Servers >Log host >Domain Name (or, our case, the sub-domain for the office) NIS Domain NIS >Servers NTP Server WINS Servers SMTP Server POP Server NNTP Server Domain >suffix search orders. > >All these useful and handy things that my Windows, Unix (Irix and Solaris), >Linux, and FreeBSD clients all need some portion of, in one place where I >configure and control it.
Super, great and wonderful. Keep doing so. But I think Iljitsch's point is that I shouldn't have to run DHCPv6 when I can get everything I need from SLAAC. In other words, what is wrong with having two complimentary pieces: Router: Sends out RAs, gets hosts a default gateway ... and maybe a prefix ... and maybe a DNS server DHCPv6: Hands out other information (DNS server) and maybe addresses upon request from host >Having to deal with configuration and control of this in multiple places is >only going to make the sysadmins of the world hate you. Sorry, are your routers not getting any sort of configuration now? If it is a Cisco box once you give that Ethernet interface an address it will send out RAs by default, no extra work. In fact, less work - you don't need to configure your DHCPv6 server with the default gateway addresses of every subnet.