On 22/10/2009 12:49, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
its been a few weeks/years/minutes since I ran an exchange fabric, but when we first turned up IPv6 - the first thing they did was try to hand all the other routers IPv6 addresses. that pesky RA/ND thing... had to turn it off ... RA preference would not work, since there was no -pecking- order - all the routers were peers.
Bill, I am not able to look at this paragraph without being reminded of Charles Babbage's take on the GIGO principal: "On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Nick