Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Some things are harder to change than others. The problem with DHCP is > that, unless I'm very much mistaken, for operating systems like Windows > and MacOS, only the vendor can do this.
Programs with root/admin permissions can shut off the native DHCP stack, open raw sockets, and forcibly set IP parameters by hand. This kind of thing has been done before. > Using PANA with link-local > addresses may be hard (for instance, on Windows 98) or easy (if you can > do this with IPv6 link-locals). Application-layer changes really have a lot of benefits. Alan DeKok. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
