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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Fri Jun 10 10:08:55 2011

From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110610134744.GA20607@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:08:06 +0200
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 10 jun 2011, at 15:47, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> I've seen the entire NANOG and IETF lans taken out because some
> dork enabled microsoft connecting sharing to their cell card.

Ok, so now we've identified the problem.

How exactly does adding default gateway information to DHCPv6 solve this =
problem?

Are there perhaps easier and more timely ways to solve it?

(And it's insane that Windows still exhibits this completely broken =
behavior.)=


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