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

Charlie,

Learning default gateways in a passive mode is well accepted behavior
of hosts. It is mentioned in RFC 1122:
|  This technique depends upon the host passively
|  receiving ("wiretapping") the Interior Gateway Protocol
|  (IGP) datagrams that the gateways are broadcasting to
| each other. 

But signaling from hosts to routers is another story. We have NDP or 
ARP for this. One could think of redistributing NDP / ARP learned routing
info into the routing protocol. I am not sure we should go there.

Teco

Op 26 aug 2010, om 16:00 heeft Charles E. Perkins het volgende geschreven:

> 
> Hello Christopher,
> 
> I didn't ask what functions YOUR routers performed.
> 
> I asked what functions a node would be REQUIRED to
> perform in order to communicate in an ad hoc network.
> 
> A host does NOT have to pick MPRs in order to
> forward packets to a default router.  A host does
> NOT have to run a routing protocol in order to
> identify one or more default routers.  A host
> does NOT have to run a routing protocol in order
> to select among network interfaces for delivering
> packets to one of its possibly several default
> routers.
> 
> Surely it must be possible to have a discussion
> about this without meandering afar from the point.
> 
> Regards,
> Charlie P.
> 
> 
> On 8/25/2010 8:17 AM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:
>> I didn't have time to pick up all your points (and I don't
>> really have time even for this, so it will be brief).
>> 
>> You asked what router functions the example I gave satisfied:
>> 
>> - It's running a routing protocol, and actively participating in
>>   it. For example running OLSR it picks MPRs and communicates
>>   them.
>> 
>> - When a host on that node sends a packet, it chooses which
>>   neighbour is to be the next hop (possibly even which interface
>>   to use to do that) in order to route correctly.
>> 
>> That'll do to be going on from.
>> 
>> As for what my mobile is running to pick different points of
>> attachment, it's running an entire UMTS protocol stack (and
>> a GSM one) to select between base stations. And it's a much
>> more asymmetric relationship than any in an ad hoc network.
>> 
> 
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