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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
On 8-nov-04, at 23:42, Daniel Senie wrote: Setting up local v6 addressing for this reason seems like a bad idea because there is no NAT and no global connectivity, so the box will need some automated configuration protocol in any case. Autoconfiguration is probably not the answer to every piece of routing gear or every embedded system built. I guess designers will need to continue installing a serial port on every device to ensure there is some way to get into the device and configure it if autoconfiguration isn't able to conquer the world.This is a solved problem. For instance, Apple sells wifi base stations that don't have a console port. When you turn the base station on, it will grab a link local address (169.254.0.0/16 in IPv4) and announce its presence using multicast DNS / zeroconf (Rendezvous in Applespeak). The configuration software can thus easily build a list of available base stations so the admin can configure them. However, there is a caveat as a host with a "real" address can't generally talk with one that has an 169.254.x.x address. In IPv6 this isn't a problem because all hosts must have link local addresses in addition to any global addresses.
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