Erik> The design center for IPv4 LLA is a household with a PC and a printer Erik> and no Internet connection, as well as two PCs in the same seat row Erik> on the airplane wired together with an Ethernet cable.
Yes, or more generally any two machines that want to talk to each other without any Network for doing so beyond a direct link. And, as we just discussed in your office, since the Network is getting to be everywhere these days (even on airplanes), such circumstances are getting rarer. Thus the question is whether they are still sufficiently common to be worth the trouble of adding this feature, or if this solution is some years too late for its intended purpose. My sense is that it is still worthwhile, but I don't have enough data to prove it. Does anyone else have data or even a sense of whether Erik's thesis or mine is more accurate? -- John http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
