Derek J. Balling wrote:
On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Paul Timmins wrote:
I know a hospital in Metro Detroit that was offering it on their patient and
guest WiFi in 2009. Of course, neither they, nor the individual running the
rogue IPv6 router knew that, but as a person running an IPv6 enabled OS, it was
really screwing up access to my dual stacked hosts to be getting RAs on their
wireless with no prefixes on them. I had to filter out RAs in iptables in order
to effectively use their WiFi, which was a mess to begin with.
Wouldn't it have been awesome if, y'know, you hadn't had to worry about the RAs
at all, but had just connected your single client machine, and gotten your
simple gateway address from the DHCP server along with all the rest of your
network configuration settings, just like has worked pretty darned well for a
number of years?
Because rogue DHCP servers have never been a problem. Switches supported
keeping those secure since before DHCP was even commonly used, right?
-Paul
