In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0811261455520.28290-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Mo rris writes: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > If your OS requires a reboot when you renumber get a real OS. > > If your apps require that they restart when you renumber get > > your apps fixed. > > I fail to understand how an app such as ssh can maintain a secure > connection in the face of renumbering. Yet many of my ssh sessions are > active for days or weeks quite happily and their existance represents my > mid term memory about what I'm working on. Internally ssh picks a ULA address and you don't notice the renumbering event. For external renumbers events extend SSH to support reconnects. You need that anyway for network outages other than renumbering. There are apps today that support reconnect. NAT won't save you from external renumber events. > Creating a new connection represents a restart from my perspective. Some > amount of my activity is lost and if I don't directly control when the > renumbering happens, it can be at a very in-opportune time in terms of my > productivity. > > Dave Morris > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark_Andrews@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf