SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

Mon Aug 18 22:02:30 UTC 2008

Yep - absolutely.  I was referring to built-in support from the stack.

Dibbler is the primary third party provider we have seen for DHCPv6 support on downlevel clients.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Wyble [mailto:charles at thewybles.com]
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 2:55 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6

Sean Siler wrote:
> Nope. XP does not support DHCPv6 - only Vista/Windows Server 2008 (and later) can do that.
>
> Sean
http://internecine.eu/systems/windows_xp-ipv6.html and
http://internecine.eu/software/dibbler_dhcpv6.html discuss how to deploy
dhcpv6 on xp. It's 3rd party but doable.