On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]> wrote: >> if HNCP redistributes assigned prefixes into the RA/DHCPv4 servers, >> who makes sure that these are prefixes that are "reasonable good" >> measured by the metric of the routing protocol? > > Nobody. From the point of view of the host, all connected routers are > equivalent. > > If the host is single-homed, any suboptimal routing will be resolved by > the redirect mechanism. If the host is multi-homed, there's a realistic > risk of suboptimal routing -- I don't know any good solution to that (but > I haven't looked carefully at the MIF work).
I wonder if the "data-propagation/router control" part of HNCP and the "attached host control" part of HNCP should be split into two entities... this would allow the second one to get hints from the routing protocol about the metric without generating a dependency cycle. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
