13 Jun
2011
13 Jun
'11
8:41 p.m.
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