turning on comcast v6

Fri Dec 20 12:56:07 UTC 2013

On 12/20/13 7:36 AM, "Jamie Bowden" <jamie at photon.com> wrote:

>> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com]
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>> I'm almost afraid to ask about the phrase "add-default-route=yes" in the
>> dhcp-client configuration. That seems wrong on the face of it since you
>> should be getting your routing information from RA and not DHCP.
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>No, no, no, a thousand times no.  I'm sure RA is great for small SOHO
>networks and for ISPs as a means to hand out resources, but in a
>corporate environment, we hate you.  How many times do the IPv6 people
>have to hear that until DHCPv6 reaches feature parity with DCHPv4, IPv6
>is dead to enterprise networks?

"Parity" isn't enough information; what features are missing?  RA is part
of IPv6, but you don't have to use SLAAC.
I'd say it's the DHC people who need to hear it, not the IPv6 people, but
YMMV.

Lee

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