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Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Wed Jun 15 19:07:10 2011

From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B7DD45A7-2859-4200-B49D-FA9CFE1DB034@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:06:14 +1000
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On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 17:52 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> "Our object is to design a communication system which can grow smoothly t=
o accommodate several buildings full of personal computers and the faciliti=
es needed for their support."
>=20
> 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

To be fair, though, the concept of "large LAN" might have changed a
little since 1976... and "buildings full" is not exactly a precise unit
of measurement.

Regards, K.

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