On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:59:06PM +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Mike Saywell wrote: > > I setup an ad-hoc network using my laptop, wireless is 1 network and > > wired is a second, my laptop routes between them. There is > > no external connectivity and site-locals are deprecated so I pick > > a random prefix. > > This looks like a typical house style network... just like mine > except that I got a machine which gates these two nets to the internet > just like you explain in:
No I meant it's an ad-hoc network where devices want to communicate ones *before* there is a global prefix. > Announce the new prefix, deprecate the old prefix done. Not that simple really... The first prefix was advertised by my laptop, the true global one is advertised by e.g. a mobile phone. What if the phone then leaves? Renumber again? Deprecating isn't good enough either you need to totally remove the prefix otherwise the hosts will still consider the prefix on-link. > Small networks don't really care about having to edit a couple > of places where hosts<->ip are registered which should quite > probably only be DNS and a single firewalling place. If it's a home user they might mind (or not know how!)... > > I dont think some organisation allocating private prefixes is viable > > either, ad-hoc means exactly that, I don't want to be manually > entering > > my unique private prefix. > > You have to enter a site local prefix too. Not if the ad-hoc routing protocol assigns/negotiates one... Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
