Re: [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix option with prefix length > 64
Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com> Tue, 30 March 2004 23:13 UTC
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Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:32:46 -0800
From: Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix option with prefix length > 64
To: JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 <jinmei@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp>
Cc: Soliman Hesham <H.Soliman@flarion.com>, IETF Mailing List <ipv6@ietf.org>
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> However, I think the receiving node should still consider the prefix > as valid in terms of ND (i.e., consider it as "on-link") and modify > the next-hop determination accordingly. > > The questions are: > > 1. is this a correct understanding of the intention of RFC2461? > 2. if yes, is this a reasonable behavior? > 3. if yes (for both 1 and 2), should this explicitly be documented in > rfc2461bis? This separation was the intent AFAIK, thus I answer "yes" on 1. If implementors have missed this then it sure should be clarified in the spec. If all or almost all of the implementors have missed this and we don't have a good reason for this behavior we should consider changing the specification. Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
- [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix option wi… Soliman Hesham
- Re: [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix optio… Markku Savela
- Re: [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix optio… JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
- RE: [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix optio… Soliman Hesham
- Re: [2461bis issue 250] Reception of prefix optio… Erik Nordmark
- [psg.com #250] Reception of prefix option with pr… rt+ipv6-2461bis
- [psg.com #250] Reception of prefix option with pr… rt+ipv6-2461bis