22 Oct
2009
22 Oct
'09
7:35 a.m.
On 22/10/2009 11:30, bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:20:11PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if multiple routers are sending the same preference level, but presumably that would not happen in a well-tended network.
I point you to a fairly common Internet architecture artifact, the exchange point... dozens of routers sharing a common media for peering exchange.
Bill, could you explain how or why ra or dhcp or dhcpv6 have any relevance to an IXP? Being one of these "artefact" operators - and clearly stuck with a very small dinosaur brain - I am having some trouble understanding the point you're attempting to make here. Nick