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


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