Sebastian Freundt wrote:
Nope, it doesn't matter what you think is suitable or not, my point is that it must be just as easy to adapt to the one situation as to the other.
I can tell you that if I were to plug my computer into that network and booted into either Linux or Windows, I would have that problem, because either way, I would have both MAC and random addresses.
Yes, I know, me too actually. Still, as a network admin, I wouldn't change my network policies just because some devices can't use my network out of the box. And you should be more specific, Ubuntu 11.10 CAN access the network in question out of the box, it's just SuSE 12.1 that can't.
OK, get a new computer with Windows 7 on it. What will happen? This is the situation that most networks will face soon if not already. What will you do about it? You'll have to do exactly the same thing to accomodate 12.1. BTW, if you run ipconfig in Windows 7, you will see a line with IPv6 address, which lists the MAC based address and another "Temporary IPv6 address", which has the random generated address.
I was making a more general point, you insist that everyone's wrong but you whereas in fact there are many scenarios in the real world that need adapting, and those adaptions must be easy, or maybe even automatic.
My ISP doesn't care about MAC addresses, all they want is all traffic to come from exactly one address they've given me (ending in ::2). I can't use privacy extensions nor can I use a MAC-based autoconfig'd address. And don't get me wrong, I'm fully aware that this is stupid, not modern and can be improved massively, but do you*really* think they will change their set up just because it's inconvenient for me? If so, you're still invited to convince them otherwise.
PS: I have been talking to them, and they do offer a fully routed /64, and even a /48, alas they expect me to pay a lot more dosh for that.
You may want to refer them to the IETF guidelines on this. http://www.eu.ipv6tf.org/PublicDocuments/guidelines_for_isp_on_ipv6_assignme... However, this is an example of someone being stuck on IPv4 methods. With IPv4, the shortage of addresses limited what an ISP could offer. With IPv6, there's absolutely no valid reason for not offering at least a /64 subnet. I get my IPv6 subnet from a tunnel broker and it's a /56 (256 /64 subnets). Others offer /48. With the tunnel broker I use, I can configure for either a single address or a subnet, but it's entirely my choice and not theirs. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org