Peter Memishian wrote:
> I fear there's still a significant chance for confusion. In particular,
> having a namespace that appears cosmetically similar to hostnames, and in
> simple cases acts like a hostname, but is not actually a hostname and will
> not be affected if the hostname->address mapping changes seems perilous.
> Stepping back a little bit, have we really created something that's
> noticeably better than logical interfaces? For all their problems,
> logical interfaces do make it clear what interface is associated with a
> given address slot, and also do not clash with hostnames.
Slots don't work with IPv6, period. A single "label" corresponds to
multiple addresses the way stateless addrconf and DHCPv6 is defined to
work. A slot can only contain one address.
So we do need something different that logical interface numbers.
Erik
