Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6

Mon Feb 28 01:55:53 UTC 2011

The documents are done, but, I would argue that neither provides a mature
set of features.

Yes, they've (sort of) resolved the DNS server issue for SLAAC, but, that's
recent and getting it into vendor support will be nice. The lack of NTP and
certain other options in SLAAC is still a disappointment and I would
argue that a fully matured SLAAC process would include a mechanism
for specifying extensible choices of things.

For DHCP, the lack of ability to deliver routing policies or recommendations
through DHCP is a roadblock for some deployments which is still in place
in the documents and should be fixed to produce a mature implementation.

Owen

On Feb 27, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

> On 2/27/11 3:08 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> Look, can we stop arguing about whether someone needs DHCP or not,
>> whether they need SLAAC or not. Let's just get both solutions to a mature
>> and useful state where a network administrator can pick the one that works
>> best for their environment and move on.
>> 
>> Devices, routers, OSs, etc. should support both. The IETF should stop letting
>> the two working groups focus on damaging the other protocol and we should
>> stop treating this as a competition or a battle and start treating it as options
>> to accomplish a task.
> 
> The documents are done at least for sufficient pieces to make it work.
> it's in the hands of vendors and has been for a while. The simple fact
> is that if you want to do it a particular way and you have an installed
> base that doesn't support doing it that way, then you're not doing it
> that way.
> 
>> Owen
>> 
>> On Feb 27, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Franck Martin wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes I don't understand why we need DHCPv6, true RD did not have DNS information to pass, but that is fixed, no?
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Matthew Palmer" <mpalmer at hezmatt.org>
>>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>>> Sent: Sunday, 27 February, 2011 4:06:29 PM
>>> Subject: Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 08:56:33AM -0500, Ray Soucy wrote:
>>>> Mac OS X 10.7 does support RDNSS (RFC 5001) so it is able to get DNS
>>>> server information in an IPv6-only environment.  Of course nobody else
>>>> has implemented that yet, making Apple a "special case" host once
>>>> again (I don't even think Cisco supports the option in their T series
>>>> yet).
>>> 
>>> radvd and rdnssd work together on Linux nicely to provide RDNSS support. 
>>> Works a treat.
>>> 
>>> - Matt
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 