DHCPv6 failover protocol?

[John Jason Brzozowski]

We will likely need some protocol for DHCPv6 redundancy particularly  
when DHCPv6 is used for IPv6 PD (RFC3633).  This use case is not so  
different that what we have today with IPv4.

John
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John Jason Brzozowski
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On Mar 5, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:

> On Mar 5, 2009, at 4:28 PM, David W. Hankins wrote:
>> It's also quite possible we will have something very different; a
>> stateless server algorithm so that (n+1) servers can answer
>> consistently without needing to update each other.
>
> You mean DHCPv6 load balancing?   Yes, that seems more likely.    
> Because IPv6 has address deprecation, the need for failover is  
> unlikely to ever justify the work involved in implementing it.
>
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