On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 09:25 +0930, Mark Smith wrote: > To make a higher level observation, I don't think it is any different > to the operation of host anycast, as the destination address in the > packet matches one of the router's own addresses, so the router would > process the packet in "host mode" rather than "forwarding mode".
The big difference for me is that subnet anycast has to function without the benefit of any routing as such - i.e., within a subnet. So something was going on that was very different to IPv4 multicast IPv4. It was the detail of how DAD, ND etc worked that had eluded me, thanks for that excellent, concise answer. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) +61-2-64957160 (h) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob) GPG fingerprint: DA41 51B1 1481 16E1 F7E2 B2E9 3007 14ED 5736 F687 Old fingerprint: B386 7819 B227 2961 8301 C5A9 2EBC 754B CD97 0156
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