>>>>> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 13:49:05 -0800 (PST),
>>>>> Erik Nordmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> i'm still having fuzzy feeling about ICMPv6 redirects - if we have
>> famous web server in our network, and the web server picked
>> wrong (downstream) router as its default router, i'm not sure if
>> the amount of ICMPv6 redirects will be acceptable for us.
> I don't have any data to say how much it will be in such a case.
> The worst case is clearly something that exchanges exactly one packet
> with every IPv6 address on the planet where you'll see one redirect
> per sent IP packet. A web server typically sends a lot more than
> one IP packet per destination. But as I said I don't have any hard data
> here.
So, how about letting all routers in the segment where our "famous"
web server is located advertise RA, and checking the ratio of outgoing
TCP (or IP6) packets to incoming redirects on the server?
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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