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Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:52:06 -0700 From: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com> To: nanog@nanog.org In-Reply-To: <007b01c9016a$8cd72180$020fa8c0@HDESK1> Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > To try to stay operational about this, Hmmmm. I think this is an operational topic, but I can see how it would be seen as more of a strategic item. > I have a reality testing question > I've used in IPv4 and, for that matter, bridged networks: > > > I submit that if you use dynamic assignment of any sort, you really have to > have DNS dynamic update, so you can use a known name to query the function > that's indexed by address. Otherwise, static addresses become rather > necessary if you want to check a resource. > Naturally. DNS name would be required, or a static address. In an ISP/service provider environment I imagine that being able to hand out dynamic ranges would be useful. Having to handle that statically would be painful. :) > This was especially a question when L2 was "in" and routing was out: how do > you ping a MAC address? > l2ping works on bluetooth devices on Linux. Might work for other stuff as well. Not sure what Cisco offers in this regard. -- Charles Wyble (818) 280 - 7059 http://charlesnw.blogspot.com CTO Known Element Enterprises / SoCal WiFI project
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