Re: naming in non-routed ad-hoc networks

2003-08-29 Thread Joshua Graessley
On Aug 28, 2003, at 4:25 PM, Erik Nordmark wrote: The conflict resolution protocol is just a way of letting the user know that a particular name is ambiguous in the domain that is currently reachable. One of the users will then have to pick another name and announce it to any other users who

Re: What is the length of the Link-Local prefix?

2003-08-27 Thread Joshua Graessley
On Aug 27, 2003, at 9:19 AM, Derek Fawcus wrote: On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 09:57:23AM -0500, Suresh Krishnan (QB/EMC) wrote: Hi Chirayu, No. You cannot use fe81::/16 as a link local address Of course you can. Even though the RFC states that the prefix is fe80::/10 it really should be

Re: Some IPv6LL operational experience

2003-08-24 Thread Joshua Graessley
On Aug 22, 2003, at 10:03 PM, Bound, Jim wrote: mdns or LLMNR are not widely implemented and if you bring your implementation to one of the many test events for IPv6 where your node must interoperate on the deployed implementations testing network most nodes will not respond to mdns. I am sure

Re: Some IPv6LL operational experience

2003-08-22 Thread Joshua Graessley
On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 6:56 , Keith Moore wrote: Applications that perform referrals may fail, but I'm not aware of any of these that are currently shipping and support IPv6. IPv6 is a new beast, we don't have to be as concerned about applications making stupid assumptions. you have it

Some IPv6LL operational experience

2003-08-20 Thread Joshua Graessley
I realize that as an employee of a company that sells a product and tries to implement standards the IETF blesses to solve problems, my voice doesn't really count, but I wanted to toss in my two cents. We have been using IPv6LL addresses with some success. The next release of Mac OS X

Re: CONSENSUS CALL: Deprecating Site-Local Addressing

2003-04-01 Thread Joshua Graessley
YES -- Deprecate site-local unicast addressing IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct