[142025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Thu Jun 16 15:40:17 2011
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:23 +0200 (CEST)
To: rps@maine.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=A3q4t8cnydBN4Vx1GB1OfSN6aSEHTfKRCCu2udQAFRw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> Are you not using managed switches?
Certainly.
> It takes me about 1 second to find exactly which device and which port
> a device is connected to. Once you know that; you have a pretty nice
> collection of statistics and log messages that usually tell you
> exactly what is wrong.
Here is where we differ. In my universe, finding which device and port
has a particular MAC address is only a small part of L2 troubleshooting.
In any case, I guess we'll find out in a decade or so how popular large
flat L2 networks are going to be.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
