IPv6 in the enterprise

[Andrew Yourtchenko]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Erik Kline <ek at google.com> wrote:
>>> I know this may seem strange, but I think such a thing may be handy in
>>> the future for support personnel trying to walk someone through
>>> debugging something over the phone.
>>>
>>
>> I think it's not strange, it's useful. Speculating further: if we are
>> a-priori pinging the default gateway address, why do we need to
>> specify the address at all ? just shorten it to "ping6 %default" - and
>> then take the default gateway addr and the interface from the  routing
>> table ?
>
> Possibe, and why not.  But I'm also thinking of being able to find and
> configure home devices.  Imagine some home NAS box and (without mDNS
> or LLMNR), I could enter the URL as printed some some sticker on the
> box:
>
>    http://[fe80::s0me:ff:fe00:mac%default]/
>
> and the first thing the device could do is issue a redirect to the
> address it SLAAC'd and thereafter I'm good to go.
>

Could work.

Even though I'd hope that by some plug-n-play magic the new home NAS
would "just work" when plugged in.

Typing the alphabet soup into the browser will be annoying for the users.

cheers,
andrew