In message <25915.1296675743@localhost>, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > --==_Exmh_1296675743_5545P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > 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 tim > e > chasing down people with misconfigured laptops on the wireless who are squawk > ing > RA's for 2002:" > > There's a *big* operational difference between "all authorized and properly c > onfigured > routers know who they are" and "all nodes that think they're routers (deluded > though > they may be) know who they are".
Or you just filter them out in the laptop. With the proper tools you just ignore and RA's containing 2002:. Done that for years now. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
