On Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:09:00 +0900 Randy Bush <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isn't it great that we never have to worry about IPv4 style addressing > > issues (e.g. sizing the subnet, manually configuring the addresses, or > > having an "address configuration server" attached to the segment to > > manage addresses) when dealing with Ethernet in the last 27 years or > > so? Why is that, and what can we learn from that? > > among many other things, that autoconf sucks in significant instances >
Presumably you're talking about duplicate addresses? If that was enough of a problem then I think there'd be an IEEE protocol to perform duplicate address detection and possibly recovery.
