On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Alain Durand wrote:
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.
The vendor has no way of knowing if a GE or 10GE link will be used between routers or between routers and hosts.
I've not yet heard of a single example of a router which does not support Ethernet and in consequence would not need to implement Redirect for the abovementioned reason.
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