The Business Wisdom of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

Cutler James R james.cutler at consultant.com
Sat Jun 11 02:51:26 UTC 2011


> James R. Cutler james.cutler at consultant.com 
> Fri Feb 6 18:00:52 UTC 2009
>  
> DHCP items are end system considerations, not routing network  
> considerations.
> 
> The network operations staff and router configuration engineers do not  
> generally concern themselves with end systems.
> 
> End systems generally are managed quite independently from the routing  
> network. And, they are more subject to the vagaries of day to day  
> business variability. Note the "one place" in the quoted message below.
> 
> The only overlap is broadcast forwarding for DHCP initiation.
> 
> Besides, configuration control is hard enough for router engineers  
> without adding the burden of changing end system requirements.  Adding  
> the forwarding entries is almost too much already! ;)
> 
> So, for routing network operators to denigrate DHCP is probably due to  
> lack of consideration of the end user system requirements.  And those  
> who denigrate DHCP and say "just hard code it" make end system  
> management that much more difficult.
> 
> I still conclude that DHCP is a useful tool for both IPv4 and IPv6  
> systems.

В 11:10 -0700 на 22.10.2009 (чт), Owen DeLong написа:
> OK... Here's the real requirement:
> 
> Systems administrators who do not control routers need the ability in a dynamic host configuration mechanism to assign a number of parameters to the hosts they administer through that dynamic configuration mechanism.  These parameters include, but, are not limited to:
> 
> 	1.	Default Router
> 	2.	DNS Resolver information
> 	3.	Host can provide name to server so server can supply dynamic DNS update
> 	4.	IP Address(es) (v4, v6, possibly multiple v6 in the case of things like Shim6, etc.)
> 	5.	NTP servers
> 	6.	Boot server
> 	7.	Site specific attribute/value pairs (ala DHCPv4 Options)
> 
> These assignments MUST be controlled by a server and not by the router because the router is outside of the administrative control of the Systems Administrator responsible for the hosts being configured.





James R. Cutler
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