Re: [IPv6] communicating multiple link (status) to hosts

[Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>]

>    I think it's actually unrealistic to expect routers to forward
>    packets to each other in many of the settings we care about,
>    e.g. home networks. "Routing protocol in the home" is pretty
>    much the hill that homenet died on. Not because it's hard, but
>    because it's hard to do automatically and nobody wanted to agree
>    on a single protocol (we did finally agree on Babel, but tell
>    me where I can buy a router with Babel in it?).  

In the good old days, one would enable RIP on two routers, and that's it.
No need to configure anything. Just enable it and be done.

I made an extension to RIPv6 to do src/dst routing. No need to configure
anything. Just enable it and router could route packets based on source
address.

But that was not good enough for the IETF. RIPv6 is way to simple to handle
a few upstreams on a shared link.