[147999] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Misconceptions, was: IPv6 RA vs DHCPv6 - The chosen one?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Thu Dec 29 07:52:57 2011
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:53:29 +0900
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <38375.1325160093@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> So what percent of the *CPE* in the average cable-internet or DSL farm *actually
> uses* an IGP,
As I wrote:
> If a host receives RAs only from a router, the host can do
> nothing other than installing the router as the default
> router. If not, however, the host must directly be involved
> in IGP activities, or, the following end to end argument
> is applicable:
IGP snooping is not necessary if the host have only one next
hop router.
Masataka Ohta
