Re: quietly....

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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