Re: [Autoconf] Closing summary on consensus-call for RFC5889modifications

Alex,

You could take some time for research, on hosts having a routing table.
Take a start with host requirements (RFC 1122):
|  As an extra feature, a host IP layer MAY implement a table
|  of "static routes".

Teco

Op 25 aug 2010, om 18:03 heeft Alexandru Petrescu het volgende geschreven:

> Le 25/08/2010 15:21, Teco Boot a écrit :
>> Alex,
>> 
>> Your statement is not accurate. You say: "A router with [whatever]
>> is a router to. Would someone doubt on that?
> 
> Right, a router is a router - always valid.
> 
> A "machine" with static routes is a router too.
> 
>> If you intended to say:
>>> A node with static routes (no routing protocol messages) is a
>>> router too.
>> 
>> This is definitely not true. Every host may have static routes.
> 
> Right.  That's why I tend to accept that there are no Hosts in this
> world and they're all routers, because they all execute longest prefix
> match searches in their routing tables, they all have at least two
> interfaces (lo is one), they all have entries in their routing tables.
> 
> They're all routers, Hosts don't exist.
> 
>> I call a node a router if it: - may forward packets; - may send
>> routing protocol packets; - may send router advertisements.
>> 
>> Reworded: a host - may not forward packets; - may not send routing
>> protocol packets; - may not send router advertisements.
> 
> Ah "may" makes it impossible to really distinguish.
> 
>> I have device here on my desk. It is called a Wireless-N Home Router.
>> I use it as WiFi AP, Ethernet switch and DHCP server. I don't use it
>> for forwarding packets, because on the yellow marked port it does
>> some nasty NAPT operations, which I can't use in my setup. Shall I
>> bring it back to the shop, and ask for a Wireless-N Home Host?
> 
> HA haha!!  I doubt shop vendor understands "Host" because s/he never
> sells Hosts to anyone!  S/he could sell Routers, Switches, Desktops,
> Servers ; or it could Host your website if you wish.  But never sell you
> a Host.  Who sells Hosts?
> 
>> It: - may forward packets, but I disabled it; - may send routing
>> protocol packets, but I disabled it; - may send router
>> advertisements, but I doubt if it supports IPv6.
> 
> But that Access Point does have routing table entries, does execute the
> longest prefix match algorithm, hence it's a Router.
> 
>> By the way, if I use packet forwarding, NAPT and MAC NAT, it acts as
>> a host on the Internet port.
> 
> In a sense.  What do you mean it "acts as a Host on the Internet port"?
> What does NAPT does as algorithm, data structures, which a Router does
> not, on the Internet port?
> 
>> Providers can't detect it is a router, it is all hidden. Powerful
>> feature, for where providers don't allow routers connected to their
>> networks.
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> I think also, as you say, that it is good to distinguish it based on
> sending RA or NA: if it sends RA then it's a Router, otherwise it's a
> Host; but disabling RAs on a Router doesn't make it a Host :-) - it
> makes it an IPv4 Router (another Router :-)
> 
> Alex
> 
>> 
>> Teco
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Op 25 aug 2010, om 12:05 heeft Alexandru Petrescu het volgende
>> geschreven:
>> 
>>> Le 25/08/2010 10:41, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) a écrit :
>>>> It's running the routing protocol, and not just listening to it,
>>>> but engaging actively in it - sending necessary routing protocol
>>>> messages. It's a router.
>>> 
>>> And a router doesn't necessarily have to run a dynamic routing
>>> protocol.  A router with static routes (no routing protocol
>>> messages) is a router too.
>>> 
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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