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

Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com> Thu, 07 January 2016 17:04 UTC

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From: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 02:03:39 +0900
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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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On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Alexandre Petrescu <
alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> And in the same vein, routers DO listen to RA
>>
>
> By spec, they listen to RA just to be informed about other routers,
> maybe learn if some other router dies out and log the info.  But nothing
> more.
>

Yes, well. Since RFC 2460 was written, they have evolved to do quite a bit
more. For example, see the CPE router document (RFC 7084). Those send RSes,
listen to RA, use SLAAC, etc.

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