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Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
From: Charles Wyble <charles () thewybles com>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:52:06 -0700
Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
To try to stay operational about this,
Hmmmm. I think this is an operational topic, but I can see how it would be seen as more of a strategic item.
I have a reality testing question I've used in IPv4 and, for that matter, bridged networks: I submit that if you use dynamic assignment of any sort, you really have to have DNS dynamic update, so you can use a known name to query the function that's indexed by address. Otherwise, static addresses become rathernecessary if you want to check a resource.
Naturally. DNS name would be required, or a static address. In an ISP/service provider environment I imagine that being able to hand out dynamic ranges would be useful. Having to handle that statically would be painful. :)
This was especially a question when L2 was "in" and routing was out: how do you ping a MAC address?
l2ping works on bluetooth devices on Linux. Might work for other stuff as well. Not sure what Cisco offers in this regard.
-- Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com CTO Known Element Enterprises / SoCal WiFI project
Current thread:
- SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Scott Weeks (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Howard C. Berkowitz (Aug 18)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Charles Wyble (Aug 18)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Justin Shore (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 TJ (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Darden, Patrick S. (Aug 19)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 David W. Hankins (Aug 19)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Charles Wyble (Aug 18)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Dale W. Carder (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 TJ (Aug 18)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Aug 18)
- Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Charles Wyble (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 TJ (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Sean Siler (Aug 18)
- RE: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6 Howard C. Berkowitz (Aug 18)