DHCPv6 for OS/X, was Re: So why is "IPv4 with longer addresses" a problem anyway?

[Tim Chown]

On 1 Jun 2010, at 10:42, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> 
>> Since autoconf is Good Enough for random laptops (or other iThingies)
>> running in dual-stack mode, I don't see much motivation for Apple to
>> change and support DHCPv6.
> 
> It's only a matter of time before they are forced to, and their barrier to
> doing so is very low indeed.
> 
> Nick

I think Apple seem to work on and push through v6 stuff that's fine for SOHO users, including Airport, but are lacking many things that are desirable in an enterprise/campus deployment.   DHCPv6 is one of those, RFC3484 support and MLDv2 are other examples.

We can hope :)

Tim