[RFC 4861] upper-layer reachability confirmation

Yukiyo Akisada <akisada@tahi.org> Tue, 24 June 2008 09:08 UTC

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Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:06:17 +0900
From: Yukiyo Akisada <akisada@tahi.org>
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Subject: [RFC 4861] upper-layer reachability confirmation
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Hi, all.

I have a question about upper-layer reachability confirmation defined in RFC 4861.

When the neighbor cache state for the default router is STALE
and the host sends a packet to off-link,
the default router sends redirect packet to the host.

Can the host considers that the default router is REACHABLE?

Personally, I didn't expected this behavior.
But I found that an implementation behaves like this
when I'm developping the conformance tester.

How do you think about this behavior?

Thanks,


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