8 Aug
2011
8 Aug
'11
11:43 p.m.
Once upon a time, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> said:
Stateless autoconfiguration (which is NOT dynamic IP addresses; the IP address is static but tied to the ethernet card) does not work unless the subnet mask is exactly /64.
Even on a server lan you'll occasionally want to plug in a PC for diagnostics without having to poke in an IP address by hand.
Actually, nobody should be plugging any random device into my server LANs, and I certainly don't want to encourage it by having it work (even if just for IPv6). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.