On 2012-01-22, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's an elucidation of what I was thinking. I'll assume the company
building the product builds many embedded systems. I was thinking you
could use an assumed ULA prefix as associated with all of these
products, e.g.
On 2012-01-21, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think
DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-01-21, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Thinking about it, in your device's case, I suspect you won't want
link-local scope to be your only IPv6 address;
You're right. We don't plan on supporting only
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think
DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on the same Ethernet
segment?
That bit I don't
I think it comes down to a question of whether you're running a few
machines at home or small office, versus a large multinational outfit
with tens of thousands of machines.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 09:27:29AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote
Thinking about it, in your device's case, I suspect you
On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think
DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on the same Ethernet
segment?
That bit I don't understand. ??It's no worse that ARP, and we seem to
live with that quite easily.
On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. Other reasons to avoid using LL addresses unless necessary:
What if the MAC address on the server changes?
It won't. It's an embedded device with a hard-wired MAC that the user
can't change.
What if your network grows to have
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Indeed. Other reasons to avoid using LL addresses unless necessary:
What if the MAC address on the server changes?
It won't. It's an embedded device with a
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