At Wed, 2 Oct 2002 15:55:51 -0700, Steve Deering wrote:
> 
> Either we're talking about the case where multilink subnets are not
> employed (no need to believe in them), in which case my statement
> holds.

Right.

> Or we are venturing into the oh-so-scary land of multilink subnets,
> in which case the routers know (are required to know, in order to
> make unicast routing work) that they are extending the span of a
> subnet across more than one link, possibly including point-to-point
> links, so know which links are part of the same subnet, and can
> therefore do subnet-scope boundary enforcement as necessary.
> 
> What am I missing here?

A standards track specification for the latter case.
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