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The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
- Subject: The stupidity of trying to "fix" DHCPv6
- From: sthaug at nethelp.no (sthaug at nethelp.no)
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:39:23 +0200 (CEST)
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> Are you not using managed switches?
Certainly.
> It takes me about 1 second to find exactly which device and which port
> a device is connected to. Once you know that; you have a pretty nice
> collection of statistics and log messages that usually tell you
> exactly what is wrong.
Here is where we differ. In my universe, finding which device and port
has a particular MAC address is only a small part of L2 troubleshooting.
In any case, I guess we'll find out in a decade or so how popular large
flat L2 networks are going to be.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no