Thus spake Jamie Bowden (ja...@photon.com) on Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:07:27PM +0000: > > From: Lee Howard [mailto:l...@asgard.org] > > On 12/20/13 7:36 AM, "Jamie Bowden" <ja...@photon.com> wrote: > > >> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] > > > > >> I'm almost afraid to ask about the phrase "add-default-route=yes" in the > > >> dhcp-client configuration. That seems wrong on the face of it since you > > >> should be getting your routing information from RA and not DHCP. > > > >No, no, no, a thousand times no. I'm sure RA is great for small SOHO > > >networks and for ISPs as a means to hand out resources, but in a > > >corporate environment, we hate you. How many times do the IPv6 people > > >have to hear that until DHCPv6 reaches feature parity with DCHPv4, IPv6 > > >is dead to enterprise networks? Strange, I have an enterprise network with some segments running ipv6 for over a decade ;-) > > "Parity" isn't enough information; what features are missing? RA is part > > of IPv6, but you don't have to use SLAAC. > > I'd say it's the DHC people who need to hear it, not the IPv6 people, but > > YMMV. > > I have a question. Why does DHCP hand out router, net mask, broadcast > address, etc. in IPv4; why don't we all just use RIP and be done with it?
I think you mean IRDP/rfc1256. We used to run quite a bit of that, too. Dale
