[136870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Sat Feb 5 23:42:03 2011
From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D4E204B.1080409@telcodata.us>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 23:34:36 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Paul Timmins wrote:
> I know a hospital in Metro Detroit that was offering it on their =
patient and guest WiFi in 2009. Of course, neither they, nor the =
individual running the rogue IPv6 router knew that, but as a person =
running an IPv6 enabled OS, it was really screwing up access to my dual =
stacked hosts to be getting RAs on their wireless with no prefixes on =
them. I had to filter out RAs in iptables in order to effectively use =
their WiFi, which was a mess to begin with.
Wouldn't it have been awesome if, y'know, you hadn't had to worry about =
the RAs at all, but had just connected your single client machine, and =
gotten your simple gateway address from the DHCP server along with all =
the rest of your network configuration settings, just like has worked =
pretty darned well for a number of years?
Oh, right... IPv6, whose mascot should be the camel[1].
Cheers,
D
[1] http://bit.ly/enLk3c=
