On Oct 9, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Fred Baker wrote:

> 
> On Oct 9, 2011, at 8:01 PM, Acee Lindem wrote:
> 
>> Since OSPFv3 also uses a 4 byte router ID, our implementation will use the 
>> same algorithm for picking a router ID as OSPFv2. 
> 
> which is to say "any old thing it wants, quite often an IPv4 address"?


Correct, it uses the best or only configured IPv4 address in the context (aka, 
virtual router). Of course, we'd want to use something else for true 
auto-configuration. 

Thanks,
Acee 
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