On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > 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. >
Which is no worse than the behavior of an IPv4 host on a network without a DHCP server. Owen
