>>>>> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:31:32 +1000,
>>>>> Greg Daley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>> Basically, I don't have a strong opinion on this. As you mentioned,
>> this is, even if justified, a very minor optimization (in fact, I
>> even don't know of a router implementation that supports and does
>> unicast RAs). So, I'm basically not interested in using the
>> optimization in our own implementation.
> Radvd supports unicast RAs.
> The value of this becomes greater if you're performing DNA,
> and only want to send one packet on the link (an RS).
> Particularly when you're optimizing the delivery of RAs,
> multicast packet delivery may not be an option.
> The chance for updating the NCE to reachable through upper layer
> packet reception is high though, if a router is adopted, so this
> is just an optimization.
> If there's value in this, we can either look at it here (it looks
> small, self contained), or talk about it in DNA WG.
(I'm not sure if I was expected to make a response, but just in case)
As I said in the previous message, I'm not particularly interested in
this optimization, but I won't oppose to introducing that if others
want to do so. So, please just go ahead if you want.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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