On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 21:09, Ralph Droms wrote:
Your question does raise an interesting issue - where, in the IPv6
specifications, is the behavior of a router in response to received
router advertisements specified? How does a router behave if
it receives an RA with either or both of the 'M' and 'O' bits
set?
RFC2462 states several times that routers are not expected to process
router advertisements.
RFC 2461, section 6.2.7 clearly does allow for routers processing router advertisements, i.e., for consistency verification. It concludes by saying:
"Any other action on reception of Router Advertisement messages by a router is beyond the scope of this document."
RFC 2462, section 4 says:
"The remaining autoconfiguration steps are performed only by hosts; the (auto)configuration of routers is beyond the scope of this document."
So, it doesn't appear to me that either specification covers the case in question.
Fred Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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