Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

["Ricky Beam" <jfbeam () gmail com>]

On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:02:18 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
> That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2  
> domain outside of an exchange point.

I've seen such large networks in private industry (and governements, not  
just the US) several times.  And IPv6 has been designed (poorly, it would  
now appear) for huge "LAN"s -- LANs are supposed to be /64, after all.

One of them "had" to have such stupid large L2 domains because they used  
RIP (v1) EVERYWHERE. (all networks had to be /22's)  They made a god  
aweful mess trying to switch to OSPF, got fined by a three letter  
regulatory agency, and are probably still running RIPv1 to this day.