Thank you for your responses Saku,
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 5:00 PM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > > > 2. lack of checksum > - in some instances packet corruption maybe impossible to detect in > network > How prevalent is this problem? There might be not point fixing a problem with a 0.2% probability of occurring, especially as it might be cheaper to detect and fix the errors at the application layer. > > 3. solicited-node multicast in LAN > - replaces broadcast 'problem' with vastly harder problem > - likely most practical deployments will just use traditional flooding > Could you please explain how broadcast is better than solicited node multicast. In any case we aren't getting round that for now and it is deeply imbedded in NDP. I am interested in your negative experiences with solicited node multicasts. > > 4. large lans > - no really ipv6's fault, but addressing policy's fault > - due to vast scale, large lan adds hard to solve dos vectors > Just because you can have 2^64 possible hosts on a LAN still doesn't mean we through principles of good LAN design out the door. :-) So I'd say it's rather the fault of shoddy network design rather than address policy. > > -- Mukom Akong T. http://about.me/perfexcellence | twitter: @perfexcellent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “When you work, you are the FLUTE through whose lungs the whispering of the hours turns to MUSIC" - Kahlil Gibran -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------