North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 01:44:50AM +0100, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > And yes, I think all the workstations WILL need to do DHCP and not > use stateless autoconfig. Workstations are being managed by IT > departments, and they do want to be able to SSH to them all and have > DNS forward/reverse mapping. Ohh, Autoconfig (with the MAC-Address in the host bits) actually makes it easier for me to log into a workstation. I just keep 2 lists: 1) all prefixes in my network 2) all Macaddresses in use. Now I can loop through all prefixes and try to ping the macaddress I want to reach (with the occasional fffe in the middle). Hoping that the MAC is really unique (we do not use 3com cards anymore) I can actually find a specific Laptop on my network easy without even knowing where the user is. > I can see NOTHING in IPv6 which makes real world networks any easier > to renumber than IPv4 networks ASIDE the fact that if /48 addressing > is used, renumbering becomes a search-and-replace thing for large > parts of it. I agree to that, though. > Stateless autoconfig doesn't really provide any added value for ad-hoc > mobile clients than DHCP does in v4 - au contraire, as all the other > information a DHCP server might offer is not provided with stateless > autoconfig. Knowing what the host-part of the IP-Address will be for the a specific device is an advantage I believe. Nils
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