Why used DHCPv6 when RA has RDNSS and DNSSL?

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Tue Mar 31 10:47:02 CEST 2020



On 31/Mar/20 02:30, Roger Wiklund wrote:

>
>
> When I read DHCPv6 vs SLAAC it often boils down to "control" but I
> don't see the need to allocate a dynamic address if the autogenerated
> are used. For client's you dont really have any inbound connections
> unless it's a support case.
>
> What's your view on this?

We only use DHCPv6 to assign IPv6 DNS addresses to devices.

Otherwise, we rely on SLAAC.

DHCPv6 took itself out of the running when it failed to provide the
default gateway to its clients.

Mark.


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