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Re: quietly....


From: Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 14:22:31 +0000

On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, 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.

Counterexample: rogue RAs from Windows boxes running 6to4 or Teredo and
Internet Connection Sharing. This is a lot harder to fix than a
misconfigured DHCP server.

http://malc.org.uk/6doom

Tony.
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