> Case study: A site has a disconnected network happily using site-locals. > These addresses get embedded in all sorts of configuration scripts, etc. > Then they decide to connect to the Internet and get a global prefix from > their ISP. > > Today: They just advertise the new global prefix alongside the > site-local prefix, all their hard-coded addresses continue to work.
and their apps break because they use globals when they should be using SLs, or vice versa. yes, I've actually seen this happen. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
