On Nov 15, 2012, at 04:26 , Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:41 PM, james woodyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> However notionally easy this problem is to address, I imagine that practical 
>> matters, at some point, must rise to the top of the pile of points to 
>> consider.
> 
> Those hosts are broken.   They can't work in a multi-homed environment.

Those hosts are not broken.  They work fine in single-homed edge networks, 
which are ubiquitous.  The deployment of multiple heterogenous default routers 
with hosts that expect networks to be single-homed is what breaks the network.

Also, rule 5.5 of RFC 6724 is inadequate.  Hosts that implement it should work 
better than those that don't because new flows created after the primary 
default router becomes unreachable should automatically go to the next 
available default router, but existing flows will still be broken in the 
absence of the kind of coordination I described previously.


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james woodyatt <[email protected]>
core os networking

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