>>> >> Actually, it's not pointless at all. The RA system assumes that all routers >> capable of announcing RAs are default routers and that virtually all routers >> are created equal (yes, you have high/medium/low, but, really, since you >> have to use high for everything in any reasonable deployment...) >> > > No it doesn't. You can set the router lifetime to zero, which indicates > to the end-node that the RA isn't announcing a default router. In this > case, it may be announcing M/O bit, prefix or other parameters. > DHCPv6 can selectively give different information to different hosts on the same wire segment.
RA cannot. >> There are real environments where it's desirable to have a way to tell >> different clients on a network to use different default gateways or >> default gateway sets. >> >> Owen >>
