On 13/07/2015 02:30, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > I'm wondering if there isn't some interaction between Redirect messages and > source-specific routing that we're overlooking. > RFC 4861 Section 8.3 says the following: > > Redirect messages apply to all flows that are being sent to a given > destination. That is, upon receipt of a Redirect for a Destination > Address, all Destination Cache entries to that address should be > updated to use the specified next-hop, regardless of the contents of > the Flow Label field that appears in the Redirected Header option. > > It does not speak of the source address, so I assume that this applies to all > sources.
It definitely should not, since in some topologies that might send packets directly to a BCP38 filter. I think that's a 6man issue. I might even have to modify my slides for 6man. Brian > Consider the following topology: > > ---- A ---+--- B ---- > | > H > > If A and B advertise non-overlapping source-specific default routes and H is > multiplexing its traffic over source addresses in > both source prefixes (say, it's using MP-TCP), its Destination Cache entry > will flap between A and B. > > If I'm right, that argues in favour of an update to RFC 4861. > > -- Juliusz > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > homenet@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet