Subject: RE: Mixed Host/Router behaviour

From: "Dave Thaler" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 08:58:54 -0700

> From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 5:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Mixed Host/Router behaviour
> 
> >  | 	also, since RFC2462 basically assumes single-interface host,
> >Huh?
> >I just re-read the thing, and I can't find any assumption like that
at
> >all.
> 
> 	suppose you have heard RAs from multiple interfaces.  there's no
> 	guidelines for us to pick which interface from them, for the
> 	installation of default route.  and things like that.
> 	RFC2461 appendix A talks about a host with multiple interfaces,
> 	however, the description is not really complete.  so i
personally
> 	feel multi-interface autoconfigured host needs more work in
> 	specification side.  of course, we can have some configuration
> 	variable in implementation and prefer one of the outgoing
interface,
> 	but... i'm not sure.

Try draft-draves-ipngwg-router-selection-01.txt.

Our implementation does implement IsRouter on a per-interface basis.

-Dave

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