I agree. I just thought it would be usefull to highlight the requrements for setting up a HA: - MIPL (kernel + mip6d) - radvd (with the right flags) - routing set-up
Concerning radvd: You can start it without configuring your routing tables and create a real mess for the hosts on that link. They will pick up the prefix and add a default route, but when they start using it they gets nowhere and this is a real nightmare in an operational enviroment. > -----Original Message----- > From: Antti Tuominen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, 21 April, 2006 14:23 > To: Buch-Pedersen, Leif > Cc: Benjamin Thery; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; mipl > Subject: RE: [mipl] HAs still need radvds? > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 11:32 +0200, Buch-Pedersen, Leif wrote: > > Radvd does not really make a node a router either. It just > sends out > > the RA's on an interface to make other systems on that link > believe it > > is a router. > > Right. But the point was just that, we are not going to add > router advertisement stuff to MIPL and you always will need > additional software to make the HA work. HA is a router, so > MIPL configured as HA needs to run on a box configured as a router. > > > In order to make a node a real router you need to configure the > > routing tables on the node. > > Of course. This is a prerequisite to running radvd, since it > does not manipulate the kernel routing tables by itself. > > Regards, > > Antti > > > _______________________________________________ mipl mailing list [email protected] http://www.mobile-ipv6.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipl
