[138756] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Edge Router replacement - IPv6 route
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?)
Mon Mar 14 19:31:53 2011
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=5X5fsuLi3z0TbafPCxJSj==_BqT6xay9femjS@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:30:58 -0700
To: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 11, 2011, at 11:22, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
> I think there are a lot of people who throw around the SLAAC argument
> like it's actually good for something. Do these people know what
> SLAAC does? For core networks, it doesn't do anything. For
> hosting/datacenter networks and cluster/VPS environments, again, it
> doesn't do anything. Zero benefit.=20
Doesn't SLAAC give you automatic "MAC address to IP" mapping? It'll =
save you manually doing that (in an otherwise well controlled =
environment).
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