Why make things easy when we can make them complex... - Alain.
On Aug 24, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:47 AM > To: Hemant Singh (shemant) > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: 6man discussion on /127 document @ IETF78 > >> If I have two SONET/SDH interfaces connected I configure the address >> and /127 netmask at each end. No default gateway (or for that matter >> address resolution) involved. > > That's not the point. With such a /127 setup between two directly > connected routers, one does not want any router to invoke anycast > forwarding functionality because /127 is provisioned. To prevent any > anycast processing on a router, the ND off-link model is proposed by > Dave Thaler and I. The ND off-link model needs a default router and > that is where the manual configuration of the default gateway comes in. > > Hemant > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
