Thus spake Jamie Bowden (jamie@photon.com) on Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 01:07:27PM +0000:
From: Lee Howard [mailto:Lee@asgard.org] On 12/20/13 7:36 AM, "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com> wrote:
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
I'm almost afraid to ask about the phrase "add-default-route=yes" in the dhcp-client configuration. That seems wrong on the face of it since you should be getting your routing information from RA and not DHCP.
No, no, no, a thousand times no. I'm sure RA is great for small SOHO networks and for ISPs as a means to hand out resources, but in a corporate environment, we hate you. How many times do the IPv6 people have to hear that until DHCPv6 reaches feature parity with DCHPv4, IPv6 is dead to enterprise networks?
Strange, I have an enterprise network with some segments running ipv6 for over a decade ;-)
"Parity" isn't enough information; what features are missing? RA is part of IPv6, but you don't have to use SLAAC. I'd say it's the DHC people who need to hear it, not the IPv6 people, but YMMV.
I have a question. Why does DHCP hand out router, net mask, broadcast address, etc. in IPv4; why don't we all just use RIP and be done with it?
I think you mean IRDP/rfc1256. We used to run quite a bit of that, too. Dale