Margaret,
Margaret Wasserman wrote:
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> Thanks for your quick and helpful response.
Sure. Not a problem.
>
... snip ...
> I have another network management related question/issue...
>
> If I understand correctly, a zone-boundary router could use
> the same site-local address within more than one site. It
> would internally distinguish between these two addresses using
> the zone ID of each site.
Yes.
>
> I think it would be useful for an SNMP manager (or possibly
> other applications) within a site-local zone to be able to
> determine which zone ID a zone-boundary router is using to
> identify the manager's local site. Do we currently have a way
> to do this? Is anyone working on something like this?
>
Dave Thaler and I are planning on addressing the scope name
discovery item on the revised charter. We are thinking that
an MZAP-like mechanism will work. This will allow someone to
determine what the "scope names" are on a given device.
> A possible solution would be a new ICMP message that asks for
> the remote host to return the zone ID indicated by the interface
> on which the message was received. A message sent to a link-local
> address would return a link-level zone ID; a message sent to a
> site-local address would return the site-level zone ID.
That may be a simple approach. Let me digest it a little more.
Brian
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