On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Thomas Narten wrote: > > If you have 2 routers on the link, a host will choose one (at random) > and forward traffic to it. If the host guesses wrong (for a particular > destination), the router should send a redirect directing the host to > use the other router instead (for that particular destination). The > host then updates its cache and forwards subsequent traffic to proper > router. > > Redirects are a key part of the Internet architecture. Always have > been.
This is true for leaf networks where hosts share links with routers. This is useless in the core of the Internet where you only have point to point links. - Alain. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
