On Mon, 02 Dec 2013 17:54:50 -0500, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote:
I don't know why you think that the PC and Laptop can't talk to each
other. It actually seems to work just fine. They both default to the
upstream router and the router has more specifics to each of the two LAN
segments.
You are confusing ROUTING with the WINDOWS FIREWALL (on by default)
Wired pinging Wireless will be dropped by the OS as foreign, unsolicited
traffic. (I see it often enough: A cannot talk to B because they're in
different networks.)
Micr0$0ft doesn't have to make any assumptions at all. In the IPv6
world, they can use site-scoped multicast (ffx5::).
People don't even know what link-local addresses are (and they don't cross
links.) Site-local (ULA) requires administrative configuration; no
machine, by default, will have a ULA address until manually configured
(i.e. they see an RA.)
Frankly, if you're paying for IPv6 space, you're not too bright. You can
go get a direct assignment from an RIR so easily for $100/year that it
just doesn't make sense to pay more than that.
If you can justify it. A home user... good luck with that (a: getting the
space, and then b: getting Uverse, etc. to use it.) For a business, I
always say get your own space, unless you like re-numbering every time you
change providers. (we've done it 5 times in 10 years. 'tho none of them
have ever supported IPv6; shame on them.) [while "renumbering" the network
may be simple, changing the prefix(es) that have been recorded in various
systems is still a pain.]
