Re: IPv6 Stable Private Addresses RFC 7217

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:37:53PM -0400, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger 
> <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> > More the latter case, but the former is the root source.
> 
> So, if you want a stable address, why aren't you configuring one manually?

Because I want a central repository of the stable addresses.
My preferred way to use DHCP is for it to give out fixed addresses
to each client, and without a pool of 'spare' addresses.

Even if addresses are allocated from a pool, I want a system to (usually) have
the same address after a reboot. Even when the shutdown sequence gives up
the DHCP lease.

I've had to setup and run my own dhcp server at work (and I had to hack
the ISC source) because the corporate server is so broken.
It wouldn't give a machine back the same IP address after a reboot.

        David

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