On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:30:23 EST, John Payne said: > On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:16 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > Example: if you give administrators the option of putting a router > > address in a DHCP option, they will do so and some fraction of the time, > > this will be the wrong address and things don't work. If you let routers > > announce their presence, then it's virtually impossible that something > > goes wrong because routers know who they are. A clear win. Of course it > > does mean that people <gasp> have to learn something new when adopting > > IPv6.
> Is anyone else reading this and the word "condescending" _not_ popping > into their heads? The only other charitable conclusion I can draw is "Somebody hasn't spent time chasing down people with misconfigured laptops on the wireless who are squawking RA's for 2002:" There's a *big* operational difference between "all authorized and properly configured routers know who they are" and "all nodes that think they're routers (deluded though they may be) know who they are".
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