[141942] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Tue Jun 14 16:15:28 2011
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:15:11 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <EE18E8E7-C839-4EDE-916F-7DEAF1E15E3E@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:02:18 -0400, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> That was kind of my point. You are unlikely to encounter such a large L2
> domain outside of an exchange point.
I've seen such large networks in private industry (and governements, not
just the US) several times. And IPv6 has been designed (poorly, it would
now appear) for huge "LAN"s -- LANs are supposed to be /64, after all.
One of them "had" to have such stupid large L2 domains because they used
RIP (v1) EVERYWHERE. (all networks had to be /22's) They made a god
aweful mess trying to switch to OSPF, got fined by a three letter
regulatory agency, and are probably still running RIPv1 to this day.
