[141958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Tue Jun 14 18:45:24 2011
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <9E01B76D-3723-4CB9-92F8-87B85699839E@delong.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:44:22 +0200
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 15 jun 2011, at 0:05, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Yes, the right solution would be to at least separate the VLANs and =
clean up this
> mess. However, due to software packages that need to talk to each =
other over
> common local broadcast across that boundary, this isn't possible in =
this particular
> organization (don't get me started on the bad software, but, that's =
what there is.)
Strange that you don't apply the logic of "the existing software is what =
there is" to the code deep inside hundreds of millions of hosts, but =
rather to obscure stuff that presumably hardly anyone uses.
If changing this software is so hard, what these people need is some =
filtering switches so the application multicasts get forwarded but the =
IP provisioning multicasts don't. No standards action required.
BTW, does this broken software run over IPv6, anyway?=
