On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Renee Danson wrote: > Good, I think we're all on the same page now. :-)
:) > At least for me, the discussion about b vs. c has become pretty confusing, > though. Ditto. > This all sounds very reasonable to me. I'm a little unclear about how > service ids relate to a 'prefer domain x over y' policy; It's the hypothethical "Prefer DHCP domain "sun.com" over other domains" case. NWAM or 'dhcpagent' would need to assign DHCP state machine an identifier. > but the basic mechanism (learners of routes pass routes to the RIB; > NWAM passes policy made up of preference types and appropriate > identifiers to the RIB; the RIB cooks all this up and decides what > routes to tell the kernel about) seems right. I'm assuming that > should conditions change, the RIB will be able to delete existing > routes and/or add new ones upon receipt of updated policy from NWAM? Yep. > Now, my remaining question is: does this describe b or c? Or is it > both, and the differences between the two are way more subtle than my > simplistic recap? :-) 'b' :). --paulj
