Help with DHCPv6 client-identifiers

sthaug at nethelp.no sthaug at nethelp.no
Sat Nov 19 20:18:06 UTC 2011


> > And those of us who don't want or need SEND/CGA, we are then forbidden
> > from routing on more than 64 bits?
> 
> Yes, because otherwise the rest of us can't use SEND/CGA.

Um, as long as I use routing on more than 64 bits within my own AS,
on links I control, how have I broken your ability to use SEND/CGA?

>   The fact that in the next paragraph after this you claim that the internet architecture has already, de facto, been broken in this way backs up my claim.   Of course it hasn't, except in your own subnet, but if your intended use of the address space were to become prevalent, it really would break a lot of valuable functionality in IPv6.   You obviously don't think the functionality is valuable, but that doesn't qualify you to decide for the rest of us.

I claim that routing on more than 64 bits is already in use in plenty
of places on the Internet (not just my own AS), and is not about to
disappear any time soon. However, I don't believe this qualifies as
the Internet architecture being broken. Others may disagree.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no



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