[147982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Thu Dec 29 02:07:48 2011
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 16:08:36 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <30391.1325139437@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>>> Quick sanity check on the hypothesis: Does Windows ship with an IGP enabled by
>>> default?
>
>> Sanity check with Windows? Are you sure?
>
> It's a quick sanity check to this statment:
>
>>> According to the end to end argument, the only possible solution
>>> to the problem, with no complete or correct alternatives, is to
>>> let hosts directly participate in IGP activities.
>
> If it's the "only possible spolution", how come 99.8% of the end nodes
> do just fine without it? Oh yeah..
Because that's the Microsoft quality. PERIOD.
Masataka Ohta