Robert Elz wrote:

>     Date:        Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:26:44 -0700 (PDT)
>     From:        Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>     Message-ID:  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>   |    But the real problem was renumbering. That
>   |    still hasn't gone away.
>
> No, and that's why we need these things - so when renumbering happens,
> our internal addresses (the ones I use to mount my filesystems from
> the fileserver, etc, which stay in use for months or years between
> reboots) don't alter.

Site local addresses save your from renumbering if you change ISP.
They don't help if you merge two networks. Subnet ID may collide.

    - Alain.

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