Re: [Fwd: draft-ietf-v6ops-onlinkassumption and draft-ietf-v6ops-v6onbydefault]

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>]

>>>>> On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 11:09:31 +0530, 
>>>>> Radhakrishnan Suryanarayanan <rkrishnan.s@samsung.com> said:

> The following text in RFC 2461bis Appendix A will also need changes for
> onlink assumption:
> "   If a multihomed host fails to receive Router Advertisements on one or
>    more of its interfaces, it will not know (in the absence of
>    configured information) which destinations are on-link on the
>    affected interface(s).  This leads to a number of problems:

>      1) If no Router Advertisement is received on any interfaces, a
>         multihomed host will have no way of knowing which interface to
>         send packets out on, even for on-link destinations.  Under

>         similar conditions in the non-multihomed host case, a node
>         treats all destinations as residing on-link, and communication

>         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>         proceeds.

> "

I've already pointed it out in the ipv6 list, and the document editor
acknowledged that (so the next version of the draft will fix it).

					JINMEI, Tatuya
					Communication Platform Lab.
					Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
					jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp