DHCPv6 for IPv6 routing information, was Re: Mysterious missing DHCPv6 feature

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 17 May 2010, Shane Kerr wrote:

> Strangely, rather than saying "look we have DNS information in DHCPv6 so 
> we don't need it in RA", the tactic was taken to create a RA that 
> includes DNS servers. Which sort of seems like TWO protocols to solve a 
> particular problem. Oh well, at least it's only EXPERIMENTAL (RFC 5006).

People said that, but there was a big push to have DNS in RA and now there 
is push to have routing in DHCPv6, so I think it'll happen, we'll have 
quite a lot of overlap.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se