> yes. this seems like a case of something that looked like a great idea > 12+ years ago (rfc2461 was published in 1998, LOTS of things have > changed since that time) but is upon reflection maybe not a great > idea.
As codified 12 years ago, redirects were supposed to solve two problems: multiple subnets on the same link; and non-broadcast networks. The discussion on this list makes it pretty clear that the "multiple subnet" use case is rare enough, that redirects have harmful effects, and that they should not be enabled by default. But if we do not have something like redirects, how do we handle non-broadcast networks? -- Christian Huitema -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
