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Re: quietly....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Thu Feb 3 07:26:35 2011

From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=qAjwt9=LEQkoGFQhdQUi3aaSxmxEb=Hm=BzU+@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 07:25:06 -0500
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:47 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> Having a DHCP server generate RA messages kind of defeats the point of =
having RA messages
> in the first place,  resulting in loss of robustness, and now a new =
mode of failure.

And by "new" here you mean "exactly the same mode of failure that's been =
around for decades but hasn't been so serious as to be the downfall of =
internetworking".

Right?






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