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