On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <25915.1296675743@localhost>, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: >> --==_Exmh_1296675743_5545P >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:30:23 EST, John Payne said: >>> On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >>>> Example: if you give administrators the option of putting a router >>>> address in a DHCP option, they will do so and some fraction of the time, >>>> this will be the wrong address and things don't work. If you let routers >>>> announce their presence, then it's virtually impossible that something >>>> goes wrong because routers know who they are. A clear win. Of course it >>>> does mean that people <gasp> have to learn something new when adopting >>>> IPv6. >> >>> Is anyone else reading this and the word "condescending" _not_ popping >>> into their heads? >> >> The only other charitable conclusion I can draw is "Somebody hasn't spent tim >> e >> chasing down people with misconfigured laptops on the wireless who are squawk >> ing >> RA's for 2002:" >> >> There's a *big* operational difference between "all authorized and properly c >> onfigured >> routers know who they are" and "all nodes that think they're routers (deluded >> though >> they may be) know who they are". > > Or you just filter them out in the laptop. With the proper tools you just > ignore and RA's containing 2002:. Done that for years now. > That works when you're one technician on one laptop.
Now, scale that solution to 10,000 $END_USERS on 12,000 laptops running at least 4 versions of at least 3 different operating systems (12 combinations minimum). Really? Owen