[142020] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Jun 16 14:30:29 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <B7DD45A7-2859-4200-B49D-FA9CFE1DB034@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 11:30:05 -0700
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:52 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 15 jun 2011, at 16:52, Tony Finch wrote:
>=20
>> 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/
>=20
> Hm:
>=20
> "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."
>=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
If you take that to mean that they intended to support all of that =
within a single ethernet broadcast
domain, then, they most definitely failed.
If you take that to mean that they intend it to be a technology which, =
with multiple ethernet segments,
connected by routers, could scale to meet that goal, then, yes, they =
succeeded.
Owen
