Agreed. IRDP was not natively implemented in common OSs of routers or end
stations. Perhaps if Cisco had defaulted to it being on, like they did with
Proxy ARP, it would have caught on. Also, it does indeed add extra
overhead. A router running IRDP periodically announces itself using a
multicast frame. A station can also discover its router by multicasting a
router solicitation packet rather than waiting for the next periodic
advertisement.
Priscilla
At 06:29 PM 6/13/01, Hire, Ejay wrote:
>Broadcast intensive and not natively implemented in the most common o/s
>would be my guess.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kane, Christopher A. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2001 6:01 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: IRDP, why isn't it used more often [7:8425]
>
>
>I've read several times that IRDP allows hosts to discover "gateway"
>routers. But every time I read that it's followed by the statement that it's
>seldom used. Does anybody know why? It seems like it would come in handy for
>failover purposes.
>
>Chris
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