Hesham, Yes, this is the passage I am concerned with. The point is that (in some environments) not all routers on the link will be equivalent, e.g., some routers may exhibit better QoS than others due to different signal-to-noise ratios, queue lengths, etc.
In those cases, hosts may prefer some routers over others for reasons that are not related to: "...in the INCOMPLETE state, or for which no Neighbor Cache entry exists". Adding the "etc" allows for other cases in which reachability of some routers is "suspect". Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Soliman, Hesham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 12:51 PM To: Templin, Fred L; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: RE: RFC2461(bis), section 6.3.6 Fred I assume you're referring to this : 1) Routers that are reachable or probably reachable (i.e., in any state other than INCOMPLETE) SHOULD be preferred over routers whose reachability is unknown or suspect (i.e., in the INCOMPLETE state, or for which no Neighbor Cache entry exists). Further implementation hints on default router selection when multiple equivalent routers are available are discussed in [LD-SHRE]. Can you please elaborate on what this change will do and why it is more inclusive? just trying to understand. I'll add in the reference for [LD-SHRE], thanks. Hesham ________________________________ From: Templin, Fred L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:57 AM To: ipv6@ietf.org Subject: RFC2461(bis), section 6.3.6 I would like to see something a bit more inclusive in (RFC2461(bis), section 6.3.6) for default router selection when not all routers on the link are equivalent, e.g., when a wireless host sees routers with varying link quality. Suggestion is to simply change: INCOMPLETE state, or for which no Neighbor Cache entry exists). to: INCOMPLETE state, for which no Neighbor Cache entry exists, etc.). This could either go in the next draft version or as an AUTH48 item. (Also the reference for [LD-SHRE] is missing.) Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
