Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

This is unusual, but, I have to agree with Randy here.

Owen

On Oct 28, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> Amen to that Randy.
>
> MMC
>
> Randy Bush wrote:
> > > > This would be a big mistake. Fate sharing between the device that
> > > > advertises the presence of a router and the device that forwards  
> > > > packets
> > > > makes RAs much more robust than DHCPv4.
> > > No, what we want are better first hop redundancy protocols, and  
> > > DHCP for
> > > v6, so that everyone who has extracted any value from DHCP in  
> > > their toolkit
> > > can continue to do so, and roll out v6 !
> >
> > no.  what we need is more religious v6 fanatics to make use of v6  
> > hard
> > to roll out on existing networks.  after all, v6 is soooo wonderful  
> > we
> > should be happy to double our opex for the privilege of using such a
> > fantastic protocol.
> >
> > v6 fanaticism has done vastly more damage to v6 deployment than the  
> > v6
> > haters.  arrogance kills.
> >
> > randy