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Re: [mif] IPv4 similarity in DefRoute-distinct-from-RouteOption (was: Comments on draft-mouton-mif-dhcpv6-drlo-00)

Marc Blanchet <marc.blanchet@viagenie.ca> Mon, 26 September 2011 15:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mif] IPv4 similarity in DefRoute-distinct-from-RouteOption (was: Comments on draft-mouton-mif-dhcpv6-drlo-00)
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Le 2011-09-26 à 11:06, Ted Lemon a écrit :

> On Sep 26, 2011, at 9:07 AM, Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
>> Nonetheless, the IPv4 software ended up with distinct options: one for
>> default route and one for classless routes.  It would be little
>> straightforward to port that IPv4 software to IPv6 if this latter had
>> only one option for both route and default route.
> 
> I personally consider it an unfortunate artifact of the way the classless static routes option evolved that we weren't able to have it support all routes, including the default route.   It's always a bad idea to have two ways of specifying the same information—it creates a very clear potential for interoperability problems.

s/interoperability/interoperability and operational/

Marc.

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