Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?

Thu Dec 29 07:08:36 UTC 2011

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

>>> Quick sanity check on the hypothesis: Does Windows ship with an IGP enabled by
>>> default?
> 
>> Sanity check with Windows? Are you sure?
> 
> It's a quick sanity check to this statment:
> 
>>> According to the end to end argument, the only possible solution
>>> to the problem, with no complete or correct alternatives, is to
>>> let hosts directly participate in IGP activities.
> 
> If it's the "only possible spolution", how come 99.8% of the end nodes
> do just fine without it? Oh yeah..

Because that's the Microsoft quality. PERIOD.

						Masataka Ohta