[116742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Addressing Help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sun Aug 16 02:09:49 2009
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Mark Smith <nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090816153333.2d5ac5e2.nanog@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org>
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, David Freedman <david.freedman@uk.clara.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing
> issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or
> having an "address configuration server" attached to the segment to
> manage addresses) when dealing with Ethernet in the last 27 years or
> so? Why is that, and what can we learn from that?
among many other things, that autoconf sucks in significant instances
randy
