On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
In message <25915.1296675743@localhost>, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
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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 tim e chasing down people with misconfigured laptops on the wireless who are squawk ing RA's for 2002:"
There's a *big* operational difference between "all authorized and properly c onfigured routers know who they are" and "all nodes that think they're routers (deluded though they may be) know who they are".
Or you just filter them out in the laptop. With the proper tools you just ignore and RA's containing 2002:. Done that for years now.
That works when you're one technician on one laptop. Now, scale that solution to 10,000 $END_USERS on 12,000 laptops running at least 4 versions of at least 3 different operating systems (12 combinations minimum). Really? Owen