On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:12:02PM +0200, 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.
You're not working from comparable situations. An IPv4 network without a DHCP server will probably have lots of IPv4 hosts banging out broadcast packets constantly as well. - Matt -- A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. -- Sir Barnett Cocks (1907-1989) (QOTD 20 Feb 2003)