RE: use of site-locals as an indication of policy?

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

do you mean that it's appropriate policy for equipment/application manufacturers to ship products that will only work out of the box if site-locals are configured on the network?

I'd like to preserve the ability to run a network without configuring site-locals without too much impact.......

Harald

--On 15. november 2002 14:35 -0800 Richard Draves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I think the answer is yes, it is reasonable to use site-locals as an
indication of policy. The kind of examples I have in mind are

1) A default configuration for some applications (eg database, file, and
print servers) might be to only accept connections from site-local
addresses. These applications would be running on hosts with both global
and site-local addresses.

2) A default configuration for some IP appliances (eg printers) might be
to only configure link-local and site-local addresses.

Rich

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