Surely all your machines can communicate quite happily using IPv6 link-local addresses? Why this fascination with Legacy IP?
Because none of my facilities (including my desktops) are set up to use IPv6. More to the point -- I have an emotional prejudice against IPv6 -- I am NOT looking forward to the day when my refrigerator has its own IPv6 address, and reports to third parties how much beer I have downed.
mikus
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 09:02 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Surely all your machines can communicate quite happily using IPv6 link-local addresses? Why this fascination with Legacy IP?
Because none of my facilities (including my desktops) are set up to use IPv6.
You'd be surprised.
These days, many modern Linux distributions -- and even crap like Windows and OS X -- will setup a link-local IPv6 address automatically in the default configuration.
So, if you really do hate IPv6, you'll have to work quite hard to completely turn it off on all your facilities :-)