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Re: Not Listening to the Ops Customer

2013-06-01 16:42:04
Arturo Servin wrote:

      Those were different times. At least us we were not so preoccupied by
tracking users, accounting, etc. So a central point to record IP address
was not as important as a central port to give IP address.

A merit to have the central server is that you don't have to
waste time and packets to have DAD, with additional overehead
of IGMP, to confirm all the distributed nodes maintaining the
state of SLAAC consistently, that is, a new configured address
is unique.

                                                Masataka Ohta