To:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>
Date:
Wed, 23 Jul 2003 05:58:45 -0400
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Subject:
Re: DNS discovery discussion
Regarding the development of a mechanism for multicast in DHCPv6-lite... The IPv4 community has been configuring hosts on IPv4 networks with DHCP on large networks for many years, and there has not been, to date, a demand for any mechanism to reduce the amount of DHCP traffic. I don't have specific figures, but I would imagine that - even in the case of synchronized startup of all the hosts on a link - the DHCP traffic would be no more than (and probably significantly less than) ARP and similar traffic. I wonder if the situation would be similar in an IPv6 network? I don't have any operational or measurement experience, so I don't know what the traffic looks like on a link where, say, 10,000 hosts start at the same time? Can someone comment or speculate on what the total traffic might look like and whether multicast DHCPv6 would have a significant impact on that traffic? - Ralph #---------------------------------------------------------------------- # To unsubscribe, send a message to <dnsop-request@cafax.se>.