On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:30:23 EST, John Payne said:
On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
Example: if you give administrators the option of putting a router address in a DHCP option, they will do so and some fraction of the time, this will be the wrong address and things don't work. If you let routers announce their presence, then it's virtually impossible that something goes wrong because routers know who they are. A clear win. Of course it does mean that people <gasp> have to learn something new when adopting IPv6.
Is anyone else reading this and the word "condescending" _not_ popping into their heads?
The only other charitable conclusion I can draw is "Somebody hasn't spent time chasing down people with misconfigured laptops on the wireless who are squawking RA's for 2002:" There's a *big* operational difference between "all authorized and properly configured routers know who they are" and "all nodes that think they're routers (deluded though they may be) know who they are".