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Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
From: Daniel Roesen <dr () cluenet de>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:44:50 +0100
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:05:26PM -0800, Tony Hain wrote:
"fixed" as in "now using stateless autoconfig"? Fun... change NIC and you need to change DNS. Thanks, but no thanks. Not for non-mobile devices which need to be reachable with sessions initiated from remote (basically: servers).You are allowed to do either / both, or DHCP. If you are talking about a server you want a static value, while it may not make sense to explicitly manage every client. If you don't want to statically configure devices there is always DHCPv6. The point is you can do what you do today, then there are new capabilities for autoconfiguration that can be used when it makes sense to lower operational costs.
Well, but all you said is in no way different to the IPv4 world and thus doesn't make renumbering any more easier than in IPv4. And yes, I think all the workstations WILL need to do DHCP and not use stateless autoconfig. Workstations are being managed by IT departments, and they do want to be able to SSH to them all and have DNS forward/reverse mapping. I can see NOTHING in IPv6 which makes real world networks any easier to renumber than IPv4 networks ASIDE the fact that if /48 addressing is used, renumbering becomes a search-and-replace thing for large parts of it. Stateless autoconfig doesn't really provide any added value for ad-hoc mobile clients than DHCP does in v4 - au contraire, as all the other information a DHCP server might offer is not provided with stateless autoconfig. Stateless autoconfig DOES have uses, but those are for most of us just exotic corner cases, IMHO. Regards, Daniel (who will soon renumber his private network /48 a third time since he has IPv6 connectivity) -- CLUE-RIPE -- Jabber: dr () cluenet de -- dr@IRCnet -- PGP: 0xA85C8AA0
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- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?], (continued)
- Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?] Daniel Roesen (Nov 14)
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- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 11)
- RE: IPV6 renumbering painless? Tony Hain (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 11)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Nils Ketelsen (Nov 12)
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- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Simon Leinen (Nov 12)
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- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Daniel Roesen (Nov 12)
- Re: IPV6 renumbering painless? Owen DeLong (Nov 13)