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Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too!

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Fri, 08 January 2016 18:21 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Hi,

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 07:00:50PM +0100, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
> In that sense, I dont know what makes a Host be a Host and not a Router.
> 
> What particular characteristic of Host is not a characteristic of a 
> Router too?

"not forwarding IP packets not destined to one of its own addresses"

iow, 

  ip.forwarding=0 -> host
  ip.forwarding=1 -> router

done

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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