[143405] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Aug 9 00:31:07 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110809034327.GB20370@hiwaay.net>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:30:05 -0400
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
> Once upon a time, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> said:
>> 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).
When I send someone on site to do work for me, I don't want to have to
prepare excessive instructions on how to connect their laptop to the
local LAN. I want to say, "This switch, this port" and then move on to
the actual work I sent them there to do.
You're welcome to run your shop your way.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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