On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 18:52 +0200, Mark Townsley wrote: > > For situations apparently needing the subnet router anycast address, > > there is the all-routers-on-link multicast address. Not that it would > > normally be needed, because any node on the link has (or can cheaply > > build) a list of all routers on the link by just watching the RAs, > > something it has to do anyway. A node can then choose a router at > > random, or any router based on any criteria it likes. Alternatively an > > application can ping the all-routers-on-link multicast address and build > > a list of responders. There is no need for the subnet router anycast > > address. > > A residential gateway router is not going to be able to do this for a variety > of reasons.
Could you expand on that? Do you mean on the inside network or the outside network And which of the three alternatives (all-routers, RA-watching, ping) are not going to work? 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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