[114319] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Wed May 6 10:31:22 2009
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0905061420170.28199@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 00:31:02 +1000
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On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 14:24 +0100, Tony Finch wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, 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.
>=20
> You'll love RFC 4941 as implemented by Windows Vista and later.
The fact that MS chose to use that as the default with Vista is odd, and
I think a bad choice, but RFC4941 is not a bad thing in itself. It is an
alternative that makes good sense in some contexts - but not, I think,
in most contexts.
And it's easy enough to turn off. XP uses temporary addresses too, also
easy to turn off.
Regards, K.
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