On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 14:59 +0930, Mark Smith wrote:
> You seem to only looking at it from the point of view of a traffic
> source being onlink and wanting to send to the subnet router anycast
> address.

Yes and no.

Let me first say that I think anycast is great! I'm not advocating
disposing of anycast. And I like the idea of onlink anycast - I just
don't want reserved addresses for it!

Perhaps someone could enlighten me - is there any way to tell an
interface that the address it has is an anycast address? Or is the only
way it can know because of the specific addresses used? That is, subnet
router address or addresses with the right bits set, i.e., subnet
anycast addresses?

If there is no way to specify to an interface that an address is an
anycast address, then there would seem to be no way to deprecate both
subnet router anycast and subnet anycast addresses without also
deprecating the whole idea of onlink anycast.

I'm starting to wonder whether this is a bigger can of worms than I
first thought...

Regards, K.

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