Use mdns/bonjour to connect to unconfigured devices. It uses link-
local addresses (no need for an uplink and works for any kind of
device) and provides friendly names.
Tony (on his iPod).
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On 26 Apr 2010, at 03:37, Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Doug Barton wrote:
On 04/25/10 16:42, Owen DeLong wrote:
That's what Link Local is for.
fe80::<EUI-64>%<interface>
For example, if the CPE is connected to the customer's network on
eth0
and the CPE mac address is 00:45:4b:b9:02:be, you could go to:
http://[fe80::0245:4bff:feb9:02be]%eth0
... and regardless of the specific method, the vendors already
document
the procedure for connecting to the web interface for IPv4, there
is no
reason to believe that they could not or would not do the same for
IPv6
if necessary.
Does anyone actually believe that the above is user-friendly and
will work in real life? Using link-local for this kind of end-user
administration of their equipment is doomed to fail. There needs to
be a procedure for devices which are going to get DHCP-PD from the
provider, that they have a certain prefix they use until they
actually get the real PD prefix, so end user dns etc works so it's
easy to do administration of the device.
We can't expect end-users to do the above procedure.
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