On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed. Other reasons to avoid using LL addresses unless necessary:
> What if the MAC address on the server changes?
It won't. It's an embedded device with a hard-wired MAC that the user
can't change.
> What if your network grows to have hundreds of clients?
Then people probably won't be using L-L addresses. However, for a
network that consists of 6 small devices all living inside a cabinet
with no router, DHCP server, or connection to the outside workd, L-L
is great.
> Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think
> DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on the same Ethernet
> segment?
That bit I don't understand. It's no worse that ARP, and we seem to
live with that quite easily.
> LL addresses are very useful for diagnostic and investigation
> purposes, of course.
Indeed, and that's what I'm doing.
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