16 Aug
2009
16 Aug
'09
6:54 a.m.
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0900 Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:
Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or having an "address configuration server" attached to the segment to manage addresses) when dealing with Ethernet in the last 27 years or so? Why is that, and what can we learn from that?
among many other things, that autoconf sucks in significant instances
Presumably you're talking about duplicate addresses? If that was enough of a problem then I think there'd be an IEEE protocol to perform duplicate address detection and possibly recovery.