[147987] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Dec 29 04:15:19 2011
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 09:14:20 +0000
In-Reply-To: <30391.1325139437@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (Valdis Kletnieks's
message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:17:17 -0500")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Valdis Kletnieks:
>>> 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 there's a CPE which acts as a mediator, or the host uses some
dial-up-type protocol which takes care of the IGP interaction.
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