Re: [homenet] longest-match (was: source routing requirements for routing protocols)

2013-07-31 Thread Wes Beebee (wbeebee) 

>If no prefix is found by the longetst-matching on the src address, will
>a default be used instead?
>
>Alex
>
>> There is also potentially a whole destination lookup table that¹s
>> entirely devoted to the ::/0 source prefix.
>>
>> - Wes

My understanding is that there IS a default for source address (see the
above comment).

- Wes

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Re: [homenet] Multilink subnet routing (MLSRv2)

2011-10-11 Thread Wes Beebee 
> Having missed the meeting, anything more recent on MLSR than this:
> 
>   draft-ietf-ipv6-multilink-subnets-00
>   Multi-link Subnet Support in IPv6 (2002-07-08, Expired)
> 
>   draft-thaler-ipngwg-multilink-subnets-02
>   Multi-link Subnet Support in IPv6 (2001-11-29, Expired)
> 
> The only reference to MLSR in an RFC is in an IAB RFC, RFC4903:
> 
>There was also a proposal to define multi-link subnets [MLSR] for
>IPv6.  However, this notion was abandoned by the IPv6 WG due to the
>issues discussed in this memo, and that proposal was replaced by a
>different mechanism that preserves the notion that a subnet spans
>only one link [RFC4389].

Note that there is a subset of the multi-link subnet problem that can be
solved using an "off-link" model as described in RFC 5942, and is currently
deployed in DOCSIS networks.

- Wes 

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