On Nov 15, 2012, at 4:04 PM, james woodyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
It breaks the network because hosts in this environment cannot be counted on to do the obviously right thing, but instead are encouraged by the standard to behave in ways that can be counted on to be wrong almost all the time. It's true that they are not broken with respect to the standard, but what the standard encourages them to do is the very essence of what it means to be broken. We should fix it, not wring our hands and point out reasons why it's not our fault that the standard and the hosts that follow it are broken. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
