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Re: IPv6 certification - IPv6 Router Advertisement Lifetime 0 and Reachable time 10 seconds

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Mon, 25 January 2021 22:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: IPv6 certification - IPv6 Router Advertisement Lifetime 0 and Reachable time 10 seconds
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 17:21:26 -0500
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On Jan 25, 2021, at 5:15 PM, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's not the only way to get this forwarding working, however RA RIOs is the most efficient for this subset of destinations because hosts of informed of exactly which router they need to reach them.

Right. We don’t expect the host to participate in the routing plane, so the route has to be communicated somehow, and RA is the obvious tool to do it. Otherwise I think you’d just have to type it in, which is obviously not scalable.

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