Re: quietly....

[Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>]

On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 07:00 -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> SLAAC fails because you can't get information about DNS, NTP, or
> anything other than a list of prefixes and a router that MIGHT
> actually be able to default-route your packets.
>
> DHCP fails because you can't get a default router out of it.

That said, there appear to be efforts under way to add DNS server
information to RA and to add a default router option to DHCPv6. Well,
last time I looked, anyway...

Regards, K.

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