Sebastien Roy writes:
> On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 01:08 +0800, yifan wrote:
> > There's another issue. The VRRP RFC states that the backup routers must 
> > be configured to send the same Router Advertisement options as the 
> > address owner. I think it makes no sense for VRRP to find some way to 
> > sync the RA option setup between master and backups. Thus it should be 
> > the router administrator who guarantees that the master and backups have 
> > same setup on RA options. And ndpd.conf surely should be used for that.
> 
> Yes, and if you step back to look at the big picture for a moment, there
> is nothing specific to IPv6 or in.ndpd for this particular issue.  The
> same issue exists for _any_ routing protocol configuration, IPv4 or
> IPv6.

Yes, with some caution.

The information that this rule applies to has to be just route-to-host
communication related to the fail-over address, and not
router-to-router.

So, for example, if you use RIP to give routes to your hosts, you can
and should transmit those packets from the virtual IP address even
after failing over (so that the routes on the hosts don't just time
out), and you should respond to queries used by hosts to seed their
tables at boot time, but you generally should *not* respond to SNMP
requests or advertisements from other routers.

It's a weird state.

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