On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.us> wrote:
On 12/28/2011 03:13, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Second, publishing specifications, implementing them and waiting for users to adopt them takes a very, very long time. For DHCPv6 support, the time from first publication (2003) until wide availability (2011) has been 8 years. Are we ready to live in a half-baked world for another half a decade or more just so we can add this feature, while layer 2 filtering and VLANs more easily support similar functionality?
10-12 years ago I attempted to make 2 points to the IPv6 literati. First that IPv6 would not be widely adopted in the enterprise until it had full DHCP parity with v4. Second that the easiest way to do that would
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be to declare all existing DHCPv4 options that are relevant to IPv6 as existing in DHCPv6 by fiat, and to prevent new v6-only options from using option numbers that already exist for v4 (and vice versa). I was laughed out of the room on both counts. (If anyone wants more of the
similarly folks keep laughing (or at least harumphing loudly) when enterprise folk say: "Hey, I use dhcp today for a large number of things, I can't NOT use it going forward, support the features in v4 dhcp that I use in your new v6 thingy." anyway, it seems to be getting slightly better, bolting more crud on ND so you can continue to say: "Yea, but you SHOULD use ...." is wasted breath. -chris