[114303] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue May 5 20:47:46 2009
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 00:46:01 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <1241570363.8158.81.camel@karl>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 10:39:23AM +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 15:58 -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> > "stateless" with "constant" and "consistent". SLAAC doesn't need to
> > generate the exact same address everytime the system is started.
>
> No - but it is *phenomenally useful* if it does. Changing addresses is
> only ever something you want in very specific circumstances.
pretty much every time the node moves in/across networks.
if the node doesn't move, it keeps the same address.
--bill
