>>>>> On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:10:50 +0900,
>>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>> | Now I have a question. Should routerA advertise RA messages on
>> | segment2?
>> Yes, without a doubt, this has always been a part of the IP model.
>> Router preferences have been something of an issue over time - the
>> difficulty being that it is very hard to assign a linear metric
>> set to any more than 2 routers (and even to 2, not always) in general.
> from RFC2461 5.1 (conceptual data structures) I feel that the authors
> assumed that:
> - autoconfigured hosts are at the very edge of the site only
> - if we put a host onto a link with more than 2 routers, they will not
> automatically be configured, and do something tricky (like running
> routing daemon on hosts in receive-only mode).
>From which part of RFC2461 do you think so? I don't see such
assumptions in the RFC...
By the way, the wording is a bit confusing here. In my understanding,
RFC2461 itself does not handle "autoconfiguration". Did you mean the
(auto) router discovery mechanism defined in the neighbor discovery
spec?
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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