> However, section 8 on redirect basically requires: > - routers know each others' link-local addresses (not an issue from > hosts' perspective, just use routing protocols or other mechanisms) > - hosts are able to verify that the redirect comes from the link-local > address the host is currently using as its next-hop > > The latter is a bit problematic. How could the host know this in the case > where the next-hop has been configured using e.g. a _global_ (but on-link) > address? > > What's the deal here?
Per rfc 2461 the source address of the redirect must be a link-local address. Thus if you want to create a static route on the host and make redirects work at the same time you'd better use the link-local address of the router in the static route. So apart from this requirement on the manually added static routes, what is the issue? Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
