On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 06:36:15PM -0700, Michel Py wrote: > > Mans Nilsson wrote: > > I fail to see why you need scoped addresses for this. > > When I want my printer to stay off the net, I remove > > the default route. Done. > > This does not work because Joe Six-Pack does not know how to remove the > default route, so the printer will indeed acquire a default gateway by > DHCP or RA. Not good enough.
Some vendors have thought a bit about Joe Sixpack and security. I like the method Alcatel use on my combined 802.11/DSL home router. If I want to add a new wireless device for home access, rather than having anything able to associate, or a manual/web configuration of MAC address, I only need press an "allow association" button that will for 20-30 seconds let any device attach, from which point that MAC address is remembered. Of course not ideal security, but a nice solution for the home user. Similar approaches could be adopted for the types of scenarios here. Tim -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
