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Re: turning on comcast v6
From: Aled Morris <aledm () qix co uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:33:20 +0000
On 4 January 2014 06:06, Ricky Beam <jfbeam () gmail com> wrote:
It'll **NEVER** be a default because it breaks too many clueless people's networks. Just like, surprise, DHCP "guard" isn't on by default in any gear I'm aware of.
Spanning-tree portfast isn't on by default, and that breaks plenty of clueless people's networks with client DHCP timeouts. Just sayin'. I appreciate the view that IPv6 was designed in a certain way, partly to fix the problems and remove the kludges in IPv4; the reality is that IPv4 was wildly successful because it wasn't the proscriptive OSI. Whilst I would prefer not to see the mistakes of IPv4 repeated (especially NAT and RFC1918 addressing) trying to "help" people not shoot themselves in the foot will simply retard deployment and maybe result in even worse workarounds. Come on people - Postel's Law applies, let's be liberal in what we accept into the protocol design too. If users want DHCP served default gateway, fine. Nobody's forcing you to enable it on your network if you don't want to. Aled
Current thread:
- Re: turning on comcast v6, (continued)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Matt Palmer (Jan 03)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Owen DeLong (Jan 03)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Paul Ferguson (Jan 03)
- RE: turning on comcast v6 Raymond Burkholder (Jan 03)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Ricky Beam (Jan 03)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Owen DeLong (Jan 04)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Ricky Beam (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Paul Ferguson (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Owen DeLong (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Aled Morris (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Leo Bicknell (Jan 04)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 05)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Leo Bicknell (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 06)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Leo Bicknell (Jan 03)
- Re: turning on comcast v6 Gary Buhrmaster (Jan 03)