18 Feb
2009
18 Feb
'09
4:36 p.m.
Owen DeLong wrote:
... If you want SLAAC or RA or whatever, more power to you. Some installations do not. They want DHCP equivalent functionality with the same security model.
It is always amusing when people equate DHCP with security... Outside of that, I do agree with you that the operational model around DHCP needs to be complete and stand-alone, just as the RA model needs to be. Right now neither works stand-alone. FWIW: there is SEND (RFC 3971) to deal with rouge RA's and other miscreant behavior. Implementations have been slow to come to market because network operators are not demanding it from their vendors. Tony