[136311] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Feb 2 09:27:26 2011
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:22:31 +0000
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <83A5D662-4055-4A0D-A62A-5F6552E46F20@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>
> Example: if you give administrators the option of putting a router
> address in a DHCP option, they will do so and some fraction of the time,
> this will be the wrong address and things don't work. If you let routers
> announce their presence, then it's virtually impossible that something
> goes wrong because routers know who they are. A clear win.
Counterexample: rogue RAs from Windows boxes running 6to4 or Teredo and
Internet Connection Sharing. This is a lot harder to fix than a
misconfigured DHCP server.
http://malc.org.uk/6doom
Tony.
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