Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:17:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups Message-ID: <199910010117.SAA14430@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990930220627.A62609@keltia.freenix.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Sep 30, 99 10:06:27 pm
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> According to Terry Lambert: > > stateless autoconfiguration mechanism. This is acceptable for > > IPv4, since link.local is defined to be non-routable; however, > > in IPv6, stateless autoconfiguration results in a routable > > address. THIS WAS AN INTENDED IPv6 DESIGN GOAL. > > So what? ISP would make their mail server on one prefix (in IPv6 terms) and > the dialups on another one. That way, you could put the dialups prefix in the > DUL/v6. > > I don't see much of a problem. Airport lounges with network connectivity. Conference rooms with network connectivity. Etc. The world is moving toward there being no such thing as a LAN, per se, with everything being handled via VPN. It doesn't matter where you jack your hardware into the net, you'll be on your corporate "LAN". You aren't going to be able to tell if something is a dialup or not, because stateless autoconfiguration doesn't have to occur into a particular prefix. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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