On 21/07/2016 01:13, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:54 PM, David Lamparter <equi...@diac24.net> wrote:
> 
>> - it's a bit unclear how an address/prefix's "source" next-hop is kept
>>   in association.  The simplistic approach of adding a "PA source ipv6
>>   address" for each of a host's configured addresses falls flat when
>>   more than 1 router advertises the same prefix, so I implemented it as
>>   a list -- however, my hack never removes entries off that.  It should
>>   possibly have a copy of the PA's valid time?
>>
> 
> The way I thought of doing this would be to alternatively/additionally keep
> a pointer from the default router that announced a given prefix (which does
> have the link-local address of the router) to each address that was
> configured from that prefix. That way, when an address goes away you can
> scan the FIB and find another router to associate with that prefix.
> 
> As for lifetimes expiring, you would need to have somewhere to keep dummy
> zero-lifetime default routes. It might be possible to do this in the FIB
> itself by adding a special entry that doesn't ever match anything, or has
> an infinite metric, or a different type...

Please tell us ASAP if there is anything we should add to
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-multi-homed-host-03#section-3.2
or thereabouts.

    Brian

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