alt Hacker News> The whole SLAAC/DHCPv6/RA thing is a total clusterfuck.
SLAAC is easily the thing I love most about IPv6. It just works. Routers publish advertisements, clients configure themselves. No DHCP server, no address collisions, no worry. What's bugging you about it?
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muvlon • yesterday at 7:51 AM
What problem is this actually solving? I've deployed DHCP countless times in all sorts of environments and its "statefulness" was never an issue. Heck, even with SLAAC there's now DAD making it mildly stateful.
Don't get me wrong, SLAAC also works fine, but is it solving anything important enough to justify sacrificing 64 entire address bits for?
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I like the ability to
on the local network and have it work (where ping can be any command or browser). That's easy with DHCP+DNS, and either impossible or amazingly ugly with DLAAC.