Hi, > On Feb 17, 2025, at 9:17 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 18-Feb-25 07:19, Michael Richardson wrote: >> Tero Kivinen <kivinen@xxxxxx> wrote: >> > Brian E Carpenter writes: >> >> >>> For example, a typical home router may today be configured via "192.168.178.1" but not via "fe80::1%eth0" >> >> >> >> which only makes sense by using an RFC 1918 address, so I think >> >> we have no choice. We could use 10.1.1.1, which is a bit more >> >> obvious. >> > Why would only RFC1918 addresses make sense there? I have seen home >> Outside of the ten or so ancient IETFers that have public addresses behind >> our home routers, it makes no sense to give any other kind of address for the >> inside of the router. I'd even argue that it should be 192.168.1.1. >> It's not actually an example, it's a real thing. > > So is 192.168.178.1, in my FritzBox. I also have an ancient D-Link on my desk > that answers to 10.1.1.1. This kind of private address is in widespread usage for device setup. I looked at the manual for a small router I use: https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/en/4/faq/first_time_setup/ It defaults to 192.168.8.1 . A search for “192.168.8.1” gets many hits. So does a search for “192.168.178.1” and "192.168.1.1". > Thinking about it last night, I thought we could change the text to read: > > For example, a typical home router may today be configured via a well-known > private address [RFC1918] such as "192.168.178.1" but not via "fe80::1%eth0". +1 Bob > > Brian > > > >> > routers using non RFC1918 addresses too, and they might even take >> > IP-address from local DHCP server and use that. >> > Changing text to use IPv4 addresses reserved for examples would be >> > best. >> I strongly disagree. >> -- >> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting ) >> Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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