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Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Thu, 07 January 2016 13:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Routers are hosts too! (Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-v6ops-host-addr-availability-04.txt)
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Le 07/01/2016 13:42, Gert Doering a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 01:39:47PM +0100, Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
>>           - a router does implement longest-matching algorithms, a Host
>>             doesn't.
>
> Of course hosts do.  Why would any implementor not do that?

Why would a Host need to look out a nexthop in routing table?  To 
forward to whom?

Alex

>
> Gert Doering
>          -- NetMaster
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