Re: About IPv6 private address

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 4 feb 2008, at 22:19, Nathan Ward wrote:

> Shorter term, having a vendor-specific (i.e. manufacturer-, or  
> perhaps ISP-) ULA would be a passable idea.

No, it's a bad idea, because you're about to...

> - What happens when there are two devices of the same model on the  
> link? Does that mean each has to have a unique number in the name?  
> (Apple airport things use part of the MAC address for the initial  
> name, but, this does not need to be typed by the user as is being  
> suggested here..)
> - I'm sure I had more problems in my head a few minutes ago.

...reinvent service discovery.

This all fairly complex to do right but that wheel has been invented  
before, no need to do it again.

BTW those printers I was talking about aren't made by Apple.