Comment pIII labels, MAC addresses, and IPv4 address space (Score 1) 259
The reason the use of the pIII CPU label bothered me was not that some insignificant number identifying my computer could be seen by someone, but rather, that a number so easily faked was being used for authentication. The use of the MAC address in an IPv6 address is nothing to do with authentication (although some twits might use it as such); rather it is a number that will help give a unique address on a subnet, to avoid DHCP like protocols.
If you've ever gone to a LAN gathering to find some idiot running WinGate or something similar has their own DHCP server running and is handing out useless IP addresses, you'll appreciate that idea.
The other issue with his article is that IPv6 is mostly to alleviate the IP address space shortage. The ``shortage'' is not even close to being a problem yet. CIDR, NAT and strict rules on obtaining IP addresses have seen to that. IPv6 provides QoS beyond what IPv4 can, and more importantly, helps the global routing tables. There are over 70,000 entries in global routing tables at the moment, due to poor aggregation of old classful IPv4 address space. The logical division of an IPv6 address forces aggregation, with the first 8 bits representing a Top Level Aggregator (TLA), and so on within them, such that the first 64 bits of an IPv6 address represent a network path, not just a node number.
And as for the conspiracy theories, well, how else was he to get people to read his article?
If you've ever gone to a LAN gathering to find some idiot running WinGate or something similar has their own DHCP server running and is handing out useless IP addresses, you'll appreciate that idea.
The other issue with his article is that IPv6 is mostly to alleviate the IP address space shortage. The ``shortage'' is not even close to being a problem yet. CIDR, NAT and strict rules on obtaining IP addresses have seen to that. IPv6 provides QoS beyond what IPv4 can, and more importantly, helps the global routing tables. There are over 70,000 entries in global routing tables at the moment, due to poor aggregation of old classful IPv4 address space. The logical division of an IPv6 address forces aggregation, with the first 8 bits representing a Top Level Aggregator (TLA), and so on within them, such that the first 64 bits of an IPv6 address represent a network path, not just a node number.
And as for the conspiracy theories, well, how else was he to get people to read his article?
