Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Why is DHCPv6 needed if all IPv6 nodes support SLAAC?

I’ve been working with IPv6 since the early days of AS-SIP and I struggle to understand the use case for enterprise IT administration needs for DHCPv6.

I can understand some points on DNS, but that’s mitigated by other means which is as decentralized as SLAAC.

Coming from an industry where critical infrastructure needs to make autonomous decisions without necessarily having centralized management seems counterintuitive as DHCPv6 creates a single point failure.

What are the enterprise reasons for using DHCPv6 over SLAAC?



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