[101280] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: v6 subnet size for DSL & leased line customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Wed Dec 26 16:39:47 2007
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 16:38:49 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>
CC: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <F1934DCA-E88A-43C4-B517-E12EE368086E@tony.li>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Tony Li wrote:
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>
> On Dec 26, 2007, at 8:26 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> It's unlikely that it will matter. In practice, ICMP router discovery
> died a long time ago, thanks to neglect. Host vendors didn't adopt it,
> and it languished. The problem eventually got solved with HSRP and its
> clone, VRRP.
Its been available from microsoft since windows2000, and according to
documentation, on by default. I am not quite sure this can be blamed on
vendors as opposed to users.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/reskit/regentry/33574.mspx?mfr=true
