On Dec 23, 2007 1:21 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com> wrote:
do organizations you know prefer autoconf or dhcpv6? and why?
What I hear is that enterprise admins want DHCPv6 because they want to have control. Me, I want to run a DHCPv6-free network because RAs give
not control, but 'the same functionality and capabilities as exist today' (which is atleast resolver definitions, default-gw, ip-addressing, equipment/asset tracking... more)
me what I want and more protocols just means more headaches.
and trying to keep 50k machines updated with proper resolvers (in the simplest example) is easier with RA than DHCP how? Seriously, its head-out-of-sandpile time here. Enterprise admins and dsl/cable-modem folks use DHCP today so that they can have some flexibility to migrate their services around if there are issues, concerns, or new/better platforms that could be taken advantage of by their users. If you do not provide that level of flexibility with the same (or better hopfully) overhead you've lost the game. If your 'network' is 5 machines in a basement all with ssh+root then this conversation doesn't matter. If your network is a 50k+ mixed platform global enterprise network you are F'd with a capital F if you have to spend cycles running to all 50k+ machines to update their resolver settings (in just the simplest of examples). -Chris