[143402] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Adams)
Mon Aug 8 23:44:04 2011
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:43:27 -0500
From: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Once upon a time, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> said:
> Stateless autoconfiguration (which is NOT dynamic IP addresses; the IP
> address is static but tied to the ethernet card) does not work unless
> the subnet mask is exactly /64.
>
> Even on a server lan you'll occasionally want to plug in a PC for
> diagnostics without having to poke in an IP address by hand.
Actually, nobody should be plugging any random device into my server
LANs, and I certainly don't want to encourage it by having it work (even
if just for IPv6).
--
Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
