Hi all, this RFC is doing a good service for multi-home nodes. The question becomes then how to integrate this solution in an "old" environment. Specifically when currently some multi-homed products are sniffing RIPNG for route detection. In the transition period some of the router vendors will support this new RFC while others will not. So multi-home nodes that uses RIPNG will still be needing to sniff RIPNG messages.
My Question ------------ When a multi-home node is both type "C" node and is doping RIPNG sniffing what preference RIPNG routes should have out of low to high. Should we use very low or very high (basically which should come first). -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 3:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-05.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group of the IETF. Title : Default Router Preferences and More-Specific Routes Author(s) : R. Draves, D. Thaler Filename : draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-05.txt Pages : 13 Date : 2004-8-12 This document describes an optional extension to Router Advertisement messages for communicating default router preferences and more-specific routes from routers to hosts. This improves the ability of hosts to pick an appropriate router, especially when the host is multi-homed and the routers are on different links. The preference values and specific routes advertised to hosts require administrative configuration; they are not automatically derived from routing tables. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-05.txt To remove yourself from the I-D Announcement list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. You can also visit https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/I-D-announce to change your subscription settings. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-05.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-router-selection-05.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
