Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:

> 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.

Which is no worse than the behavior of an IPv4 host on a network without a DHCP server.

Owen