Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email protected]> writes: >> The plan is to explicitly allow such retractions in RFC 6126-bis, but >> they are clearly not allowed by RFC 6126. > > Hmm, the RFC says this (which I seem to have previously missed): > > If the metric field is FFFF hexadecimal, this TLV specifies a > retraction. In that case, the current router-id and the Seqno are > not used. AE MAY then be 0, in which case this Update retracts all > of the routes previously advertised on this interface. >
Okay, actually trying to put this into code: Is the intention here that a null-router ID update is acceptable only on *wildcard* retractions or on *all* retractions? -Toke
