Re: Questions about server's use of giaddr

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[Ralph Droms:]
> Ouch.  This sounds like an ugly problem.  I think you're right - relay
> agents, especially those not running in a router - could very easily
> receive server responses for which the relay agnent has no corresponding
> interface.
> 
> Anybody have a better suggestions?

Afraid not.  Even on the graceful-renumbering stuff, I've basically
been assuming that a relay agent has to be configured to speak on a
subnet in order to handle passing requests back to that subnet.  It's
clear that the router has to be configured for that subnet to make it
worth assigning an address on that subnet, so I think the combined
router-and-relay-agent case is the *most* obvious example.

Be well.
        Lowell Gilbert
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