#5: only one default route? (there should be multiple, as for MIF WG)
Comment (by alexandru.petrescu@…): On 2012-03-28 21:33, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 00:16, Brian E Carpenter < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> The phrase "more than one default route" on its own makes my head hurt, >> given the normal meaning in computer science of the word "default". >> >> One default route per source prefix in use makes perfect sense, in view >> of the need for address pair selection and ingress-filtering avoidance. >> (When I think about it, a default route even makes sense for a ULA prefix.) > > > No, multiple default routes make sense even when they're not > source-specific. For example, they make sense when you have two routers and > one of them can go down. Remember that a route includes a next-hop, and > that RFC 4861 defines a default router list (which is a list of possible > next-hops for the default route). Fair enough, although if we were starting again there might be a better way of doing it. Brian _______________________________________________ mif mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mif -- -------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Reporter: alexandru.petrescu@… | Owner: Alexandru Petrescu Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: milestone1 Component: dhcpv6-route-option | Version: Severity: In WG Last Call | Resolution: Keywords: multiple default routes | -------------------------------------+--------------------------------- Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/mif/trac/ticket/5#comment:9> mif <http://tools.ietf.org/mif/> _______________________________________________ mif mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mif
