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Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () eeph com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:18:27 -0700
TJ wrote:
It is still the router, a piece of managed infrastructure sending out the information - not like we are encouraging hosts to make up their own prefix info here ... and hosts choosing the low-order bits shouldn't matter that much.
But that's the fatal flaw of autoconfiguration. "Hosts chosing the low-order bits" works great until either A) one of those hosts wants a semi-permanent name lodged in a DNS server and the IT guy wants to semi-permanently assign an IP address to it without having to touch the host configuration or B) the RIAA/MPAA/FBI/etc. comes and asks to see the logs which show which user on the subnet had a particular address and then goes to the local court and claims that you're using this newfangled protocol so as to avoid making information available that has "always" been available before.
If *both* of these problems were fixed as well as DHCP fixes them for IPv4, there'd be a whole lot more support for letting the hosts choose their low-order bits.
Matthew Kaufman
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Nathan Ward (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Kevin Loch (Oct 18)
- Re: {SPAM?} Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Ray Soucy (Oct 18)
- RE: {SPAM?} Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN TJ (Oct 18)
- Re: {SPAM?} Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Ray Soucy (Oct 18)
- RE: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN TJ (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Kevin Loch (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Chuck Anderson (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Nick Hilliard (Oct 18)
- RE: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN TJ (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Matthew Kaufman (Oct 18)
- RE: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN TJ (Oct 18)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Mohacsi Janos (Oct 19)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN David Conrad (Oct 21)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 21)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Chris Adams (Oct 21)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Iljitsch van Beijnum (Oct 21)
- Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN Ray Soucy (Oct 21)