[Re: http://tools.ietf.org/search/draft-hain-ipv6-ulac-01]

Mon Apr 26 04:27:18 UTC 2010

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> 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.

Last 3 cheap routers. BIG STICKER: INSTALL SOFTWARE BEFORE YOU PLUG THIS 
ROUTER IN! I doubt many users even use the old "goto 
http://192.168.1.1/" anymore. That being said, there are private 
addressing schemes in IPv6 as well. No reason one could be bound to a 
cpe router with an easy to type address.

Jack