[118457] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Thu Oct 22 07:19:49 2009
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20091022110816.GD32008@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:18:48 +1100
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On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:08 +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:44:38PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:30 +0000, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
> > > > The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if
> > >=20
> > > I point you to a fairly common Internet architecture artifact,
> > > the exchange point... dozens of routers sharing a common
> > > media for peering exchange. =20
> >=20
> > And how do they discriminate now, with IPv4?
>
> IPv4 has no concept of RA/ND. to make this construct work at
> all in IPv6, all participants have to turn -off- RA/ND to prevent
> one or more routers trying to impose their views of addressing
> on their neighbours.
But my question was not about IPv6. How do IPv4 routers operate in such
a situation?
Regards, K.
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