Re: Re: Just how big is IPv6?
  By: Arelor to Deon George on Sat Jan 04 2025 09:29 am

Howdy,

 > NTP is just the most common assignment that you'd expect the network to
 > provide but SLAAC lacks. There are cetainly other tasks that you'd use DHCP
 > for and that SLAAC is not fitted to service. As far as I know you can't
 > convey PXE information using SLAAC only, for example.

I dont think SLAAC was ever considered/planned to be a replacement for DHCP.
Sure there is overlap (assigning addresses, routes) - and its enough if you dont
need the other stuff.

 > Spoofings and internal masquerading and
 > such are there just for when clients suck and I usually set it so a warning
 > is triggered when such mechanisms need apply.

Or when you have users who want to bypass the lan setup - especially to get
access to something the lan setup was trying to deny.


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