Michael Hunter wrote:
The argument is that without some kind of service discovery setting up an ad hoc network isn't as interesting. The two technologies synergize around ad hoc networks.
Show me an ad-hoc network that is in production use. If it is in production use I expect there to be some coordination around admission/attachment to the network, as well as around IP address assignment. (Even research mobile ad-hoc networks assume this - something assigns static IP addresses or there is a DHCP or DHCP-like service.)
The design center for IPv4 LLA is a household with a PC and a printer and no Internet connection, as well as two PCs in the same seat row on the airplane wired together with an Ethernet cable.
If you have Internet connectivity you get IPv4 DHCP as a result. And any significantly larger network will have subnets and routers hence LLA isn't sufficient.
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