IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

Wed Oct 21 21:20:05 UTC 2009

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 18 okt 2009, at 10:03, Andy Davidson wrote:
> 
>> Support default-routing options for DHCPv6 !
> 
> This would be a big mistake. Fate sharing between the device that 
> advertises the presence of a router and the device that forwards packets 
> makes RAs much more robust than DHCPv4. And DHCPv6 is just a case of 
> very bad design, don't expect it to work well without bending over 
> backwards even farther than you're used to with DHCPv4. It's time for 
> this DHC stuff to reach its final resting place.

Then don't use it.  That's why it's called an Option :)

However some of us actually need to use this stuff and sometimes
in ways not imagined by the IETF.

- Kevin