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Re: Compatibility with SRH requirement (was Re: Adoption Call for "The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)")

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Sat, 30 May 2020 20:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: Compatibility with SRH requirement (was Re: Adoption Call for "The IPv6 Compact Routing Header (CRH)")
To: John Scudder <jgs=40juniper.net@dmarc.ietf.org>
Cc: James Guichard <james.n.guichard@futurewei.com>, IPv6 List <ipv6@ietf.org>
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John Scudder wrote on 30/05/2020 21:29:
> So now, by definition, you’re saying that two different nodes in the 
> same network have the same (non link-local, also by definition) address. 
> That’s a broken network, of course it’s doing broken things. 

just to put this in context, configuring different nodes with the same 
identifier (e.g. loopback address) on a plain old ipv4 or mpls network 
can cause truly hilarious levels of breakage.  This is not a protocol bug.

Nick

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