At 5:04 PM +0700 6/3/01, Robert Elz wrote:
>And I know, that since an anycast address looks syntactically just like
>a unicast address, this can be tricky at times...
Part of the job of assigning an anycast address to a node is informing
that node that that address is an anycast address, i.e., an address
that is potentially shared with other nodes. That ensures that the
node responsible for choosing the source address has the info needed
to distinguish its own unicast addresses from its own anycast addresses,
despite the lack of any syntactic indication in the addresses themselves.
Steve
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