Re: [dhcwg] DHCPv6 router option

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> > Here is where we see the difference in scale. Setting up a router with
> > RA for one interface is easy. Doing the same for 10.000 interfaces does
> > not scale. Doing it on the DHCP server, and letting the router do the
> > rest "automagically", *based on information from the DHCP server", gives
> > us the necessary scaling on the router.
> 
> You have to configure the dhcp proxy option on the same amount of 
> interfaces.

For our routers this is either implicit (global configuration) or it is
a one-line explicit configuration (turn on DHCP relay for subinterfaces
of physical interfaces x, y, z).

> >> - Setting up DHCP server and maintaining is requires extra work, however
> >> you might have tighter control which is very important in various
> >> environment.
> >
> > The DHCP infrastructure is already in place and ties in with other
> > operational support systems.
> 
> Can you mention - probably offlist - one system which is integrating 
> DHCPv4 (existing DHCP infrastructure), with DHCPv6 (infratructure under 
> deployment). For example we are operating one DHCP for IPv4 and a 
> different one for DHCPv6. Best Regards,

We certainly expect to use the same DHCP servers for IPv4 and IPv6.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no