[141929] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Jun 14 13:40:33 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DF789C9.8090500@foobar.org>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:36:39 -0700
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 14, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> On 14/06/2011 17:02, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large =
L2 domain outside of an
>> exchange point.
>=20
> Indeed so. Apart from large enterprise LANs. And campus LANs. And =
badly designed large service provider LANs. And other types of large L2 =
domains. But apart from those exceptions, you'll never see large L2 =
domains outside of an IXP.
>=20
> Nick
Even on large enterprise LANS, campus LANs, and badly designed large =
service provider LANs,
you don't tend to have the kind of perversely large L2 environment that =
is present at AMSIX.
Also, as was pointed out, they have a rather unique situation of stale =
peering sessions continuously
banging away at ND and ARP.
Owen
