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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:12:02 +0200
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.
Current thread:
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6, (continued)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Jun 10)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 George Herbert (Jun 10)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Cutler James R (Jun 10)
- The Business Wisdom of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Cutler James R (Jun 10)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Matthew Reath (Jun 10)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Jun 10)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Daniel Roesen (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Leo Bicknell (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Ingo Flaschberger (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Matthew Palmer (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Leo Bicknell (Jun 12)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Jimmy Hess (Jun 12)
- RE: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Kelly Setzer (Jun 13)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Jun 13)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Jun 13)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Leo Bicknell (Jun 13)
- RE: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Kelly Setzer (Jun 13)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Joel Jaeggli (Jun 14)
- Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6 Owen DeLong (Jun 16)