TJ wrote:
However, many do not "have" DHCPv6 ... WinXP, MacOS, etc. are not capable. Also - does DHCPv6 currently have an option for prefix length? Just asking.
WRT /64s (or really, /56s and /48s being assigned to clients) - note that these are NOT static assignments permanently belonging to the client. They are hopefully dynamic, hopefully via DHCPv6-PD (hopefully available/supported by then) ... similar to the single public IPv4 address most of us dynamically get @home today. Yep - that's what I'm hoping (as I've said and clarified). But I think
I'm under no allusion that a /64 is going to be optional - it's really too late which is sad. I think people have just latched onto it and now accept it and defend it without thinking about "is this still the answer?". Just because it's in an RFC doesn't mean it's still the right answer in a changing world. the reality is that in the provider world, no matter what people here say, customer demand for an unchanging IPv6 range will increase not decrease - driving up provider routing size and complexity. -- Matthew Moyle-Croft - Internode/Agile - Networks Level 4, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia Email: mmc@internode.com.au Web: http://www.on.net Direct: +61-8-8228-2909 Mobile: +61-419-900-366 Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909