On 12 jun 2011, at 15:45, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many multicasts >> which can seriously degrade wifi performance.
> Huh? This is no worse than IPv4 where a host comes up and sends a > subnet-broadcast to get DHCP. The IPv4 host does this once and gets its lease. If there is no DHCPv6 server then DHCPv6 clients would keep broadcasting forever. Not a good thing.