Re: [v6ops] (re)numbering [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]

George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org> Thu, 29 May 2014 23:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] (re)numbering [ULA draft revision #2 Regarding isolated networks]
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How long ago Mark. How old, What OS.

If this is a UNISYS mainframe which used , to separate the elements of the
dotted-quad for instance (yes, that really happened) we'd be entitled to
say "so what"

if this is a Vista or newer OS, we need to know.


On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:32 AM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:

>
> In message <CAEmG1=rz=
> o3adK5a7M5DOFGVa1GnjKxj3bNRq6896nBQGLOTVQ@mail.gmail.com>
> , Matthew Petach writes:
> >
> > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Mark ZZZ Smith <
> markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au>
> > wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > RFC1918s have provided that internal connectivity robustness to both
> home
> > > networks and enterprise networks. Of course the drawback is that in
> IPv4 it
> > > is binary - hosts either have RFC1918s or public addresses, so if you
> have
> > > RFC1918s you have to use NAT to access external destinations on the
> > > Internet.
> >
> > Wow...that's news to me.
> >
> > For a decade now, I've been using
> > RFC1918 addresses+global addresses
> > in IPv4 on my home network; each
> > host has an address from each subnet,
> > and uses the 1918 addresses to reach
> > internal-only devices (printers, terminal
> > servers, etc.) which only have RFC1918
> > addresses, and use the globally routed
> > IPs for reaching non-local destinations.
> >
> > I'm not sure I'd agree with your characterization
> > that IPv4 is different from IPv6 in that regards;
> > there's nothing in the IPv4 world that prevents
> > hosts from having multiple addresses, and
> > making use of them.
> >
> > It's definitely a plus to have internal connectivity
> > stay working regardless of external connectivity,
> > I completely agree with you on that.
> >
> > Matt
>
> It may work with some machine some of the time.  It is not guarenteed
> to work with all machines all of the time.  I've definitely used
> machines which didn't support multiple IPv4 addresses on the same
> interface.
>
>
> --
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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