> I think the base view is, "we'll spec things for IPv6; if IPv4 gets the
> benefit, so much better".

Very well put, but not exactly what happens with HNCP, which specifies
things fairly precisely for IPv4.  (A good thing, IMHO.)

> In this case... what's do we get from doing src/dest routing for IPv4
> given that a host only ever has one IPv4 address?

In a typical Homenet, we're not doing source-specific for IPv4.  HNCP
elects a single NAT router that delegates 10/8.  HNCP is a little vague
about whether all NAT gateways announce a (non-specific) IPv4 default
route -- hncpd/OpenWRT pushes traffic through all NAT gateways, while by
default shncpd pushes all traffic through the router doing the delegation.

(More precisely, HNCP says which routers must announce routes into the
routing domain, but doesn't specify whether any other routes can be
announced.  Hncpd/OpenWRT announces all available routes, while shncpd
performs careful filtering in order to only announce the minimal set of
routes.  A clued administrator can add filtering rules to announce
additional routes, of course, and since babeld's config file format easy
to generate, this could be a point-and-click configuration item.)

-- Juliusz

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