Why used DHCPv6 when RA has RDNSS and DNSSL?

[Fernando Gont]

On 31/3/20 07:09, sthaug at nethelp.no 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.
> 
> Note that there have been multiple requests for DHCPv6 to do this but
> every attempt has been shot down.

Yes. That has been very unfortunate.


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