RE: Is there a IPv6 Configuration Protocol Options for DNS IP address?

"Glen Zorn" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pppext
Organization Cisco Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bernard Aboba <mailto:[email protected]> writes:

>> this edict change the reasons that they didn't implement DHCP in the
>> first place.
> 
> The reasons that DHCP was not implemented for IPv4 do not apply to
> IPv6. 

I honestly don't know what reason(s) 3GPP2 had for not using DHCP
w/IPv4.  However, I'm pretty sure that whatever those reasons were, they
can't be changed by proclamation. ;-)

> It is widely expected that "stateless DHCPv6" servers will be
> implemented on NASen, so that there is no need to deploy DHCPv6
> servers in the network.   

Hope this helps,

~gwz

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