On Nov 15, 2012, at 13:04 , james woodyatt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Well, this is just wrong.  I didn't think this through completely.  Rule 5.5 of 
RFC 6724 *is* inadequate, but not for precisely the reason I describe above.  
It would help, but Rule 3 overrides it, and dragons await the unwary sailor who 
doesn't keep synchronized clocks.


--
james woodyatt <[email protected]>
core os networking

_______________________________________________
homenet mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet

Reply via email to