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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Wed Jun 15 11:52:46 2011

From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1106151549030.14470@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:52:39 +0200
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 15 jun 2011, at 16:52, Tony Finch wrote:

> Ethernet is not designed for huge LANs. If you want that you need
> to make significant changes - http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mas90/MOOSE/

Hm:

"Our object is to design a communication system which can grow smoothly =
to accommodate several buildings full of personal computers and the =
facilities needed for their support."

Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks
Robert M. Metcalfe and David R. Boggs
Communications of the ACM Volume 19 Issue 7, July 1976=


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