On Jun 10 2009, at 21:53, Zach Shelby wrote:
3. Or routers in an Ad-hoc LoWPAN could set the M flag to 0 in the RA to indicate if there is no ER.
Right, they already have to do that. So no M-flag, no NR.
Then there is the question of how an Ad-hoc LoWPAN really functions after that. All addresses would stay optimistic, we would probably need to require node to implement NS/NA
That is an absolute show-stopper. Making hosts more complex so you can save a couple bytes in an ER is a no-no.
Since I think that the NR will also play an important role in bootstrapping the routing, the hope to get by without an ER seems to be wishful thinking.
"just pray" mode could be specified for nodes that experience an M=0 world.
All communciation should stay link-local. The routing protocol won't come up anyway, I'd think. Gruesse, Carsten _______________________________________________ 6lowpan mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lowpan
