On 29 feb 2008, at 0:22, Joe Touch wrote: >> However, I think I was fairly careful with router, node and host. >> Most of the time the distinction is just that routers send router >> advertisements and hosts listen for them.
> Is there, e.g., never a case where you'd want a router to act like a > host while it's being configured? Well, it would be good if you could set up a maximum MTU for a subnet in a single place. One way to do that is to have one router advertise it and the others listening for the advertisements. But I'm not sure that is a good solution. Alternatively, the routers could learn this information from a server such as a DHCP server. But that is even more dangerous: what if the server becomes unreachable? Ideally, the routers should implement the full protocol including probing so they don't have to configured with a static maximum, they'll figure it out dynamically. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
