On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Soliman Hesham wrote: > > The user knows that all of his communication attempts fail. > > That's a > > good signal that there's something wrong. If the user knows nothing > > more of this, he calls helpdesk or some support, which may > > be able to > > identify the problem and eliminate it. > > => "may" is the key word. I basically don't believe it. > I think it'll be problematic enough to be always disabled.
Then they call the second-line support, and figure out the problem. If this happens commonly enough, it's going to be common knowledge to the technical folks. On the other hand, if it doesn't happen commonly enough, who cares? (Sooner or later someone is going to figure it out in any case, and the problem gets fixed shortly by removing the box from the looping topology.) > or you read documentation, which should > > certainly > > describe this feature. > > => I don't think you understant what an "average user" > means. It means, get the box, plug it in, it works! That's what ND-proxy is for, precisely. And that's how it operates in about every scenario. Are you suggesting that the scenario where an *average* home user, knowing nothing techically, would be purchasing *3* of these boxes, and plugging all of them in the home network in a topology just so that he'd create a loop? (loops with 1 or 2 boxes are so obvious I'm not don't think they're worth considering.) 1 additional box (in addition to the CPE) is common enough. 2 happens sometimes. I have trouble figuring why any *average user* would run the equivalent 3 NAT boxes (or routers) in a home network! (You and me could certainly do it, but the average home user is not you or me! :) Time for a reality check here. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
