On Thursday 30 October 2003 18:15, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > [...] > > > Ooops, forget the oven :-), just think as if the fridge was shipped > > with an Ipv6 address prefix and the scheduler was shipped with > > another IPv6 prefix :) > > The whole point of IPv6 (and also IP) is that machines aren't shipped with > invented addresses, and you're supposed to make them automatically > communicate. Or, in the case of IPv6, the invented address is their > link-local address and they can autoconfigure another address. All of > these are from the same prefix between all the nodes on a link. > > This is just so incredibly bad idea it doesn't even bear thinking about. > But if one want to enable it manually, you can always point a default > route in your Ethernet interface.
Hello: Indeed this is a good point. I won't discuss on this subject any longer. Thanks for the discussion and the pointer! [snipped] -- JFRH -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
