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Re: [6lowpan] "Advertize on Behalf" flag in ARO

Mukul Goyal <mukul@uwm.edu> Wed, 30 March 2011 00:45 UTC

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:47:26 -0500
From: Mukul Goyal <mukul@uwm.edu>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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Subject: Re: [6lowpan] "Advertize on Behalf" flag in ARO
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Hi Carsten

>Hosts don't take part in routing protocols

I agree absolutely.

>The only source of information about reachability and network configuration a host has is ND (and DHCP for some of the latter, if present).

I agree. That's why I think 6lowpan ND should provide a mechanism to clearly identify a registered neighbor as a 6lowpan host or a 6lowpan router.

Thanks
Mukul 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Bormann" <cabo@tzi.org>
To: "Esko Dijk" <esko.dijk@philips.com>
Cc: "Erik Nordmark" <nordmark@acm.org>, "Mukul Goyal" <mukul@uwm.edu>, "6lowpan" <6lowpan@ietf.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 8:14:34 AM
Subject: Re: [6lowpan] "Advertize on Behalf" flag in ARO

On Mar 29, 2011, at 14:55, Dijk, Esko wrote:

> RPL reachability is indeed advertised to both 6LR/6LNs, the only distinction is that a 6LN (host) would operate as a RPL leaf node

Hosts don't take part in routing protocols, so I don't understand this sequence.
The only source of information about reachability and network configuration a host has is ND (and DHCP for some of the latter, if present).

Gruesse, Carsten

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