> > Anyway, last night (no joke :-( ) my parents called me up to > > troubleshoot their home DSL router. They had no external > connectivity. > > I had them log into the home router, and we quickly found > they had no > > WAN IP address. I had them re-enter their WAN username/password > > credentials, and everything then was back to normal for them. > > > > We didn't have to worry about: > > (1) recognizing a temporary signaling IP address > > That's trivial. By now anyone who troubleshoots networks can > recognize IPv4 and IPv6 link-local addresses. And they know > you cannot get far using such IP addresses.
My parents are not networking experts. At all. But if they buy an off-the-shelf broadband router, they are expected to troubleshoot its various states. A truism is that more states = more complexity when debugging. Eric _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
