Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

["Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 22:32:19 -0400, Mark Andrews <marka () isc org> wrote:
> You can blame the religious zealots that insisted that everything
> DHCP does has to also be done via RA's.

I blame the anti-DHCP crowd for a lot of things. RAs are just dumb.  
There's a reason IPv4 can do *everything* through DHCP -- hell, even boot  
menu lists are sent in dhcp pakcets.

> > The XP box is in an even worse situation if you try to run it on a
> > v6-only network.
>
> Which is fixable with a third party DHCPv6 client / manual configuration
> of the nameservers.

Just like no "IP stack" was fixable in the 80's. No. Just, No. There are  
millions upon millions of internet users I wouldn't trust to double click  
setup.exe.

> None of which is the fault of the protocol.

Actually, it's 100% the fault of the protocol. IPv6-only networking has  
been a cluster-f*** from day one. And it still doesn't f'ing work today.  
Until there is *A* standard to implement, that stands still for more than  
an hour before something else "critical" gets bolted on to it, people are  
going to continue to ignore IPv6.

Yes, my XP machines work fine with IPv6... on a network using SLAAC, where  
IPv4 (DHCPv4) is still enabled and providing the various bits necessary to  
do anything other than ping my gateway.