[106967] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SLAAC(autoconfig) vs DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Mon Aug 18 18:16:20 2008
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:15:52 -0500
From: Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
To: Charles Wyble <charles@thewybles.com>
In-Reply-To: <48A9D2E6.3010507@thewybles.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Charles Wyble wrote:
>> 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.
The ideal solution would be OAM. Of course not everything supports that
and it's not on by default either. Of all the things to turn off by
default, this is one thing that I'd like to see on.
Justin
