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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6


From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:08:06 +0200

On 10 jun 2011, at 15:47, Leo Bicknell wrote:

I've seen the entire NANOG and IETF lans taken out because some
dork enabled microsoft connecting sharing to their cell card.

Ok, so now we've identified the problem.

How exactly does adding default gateway information to DHCPv6 solve this problem?

Are there perhaps easier and more timely ways to solve it?

(And it's insane that Windows still exhibits this completely broken behavior.)

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