Re: Question about Subnet-Router anycast address

2011-10-03 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
Ole, I try to ping some routers on one of their Subnet-Router anycast addresses (SRAA). (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4291#section-2.6.1) Some (Cisco) reply with an unicast source address (same subnet prefix). Another one (Alcatel) reply with the SRAA as source address. A Linux

Re: Question about RFC 3484

2011-10-03 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
Ole, Section 4 of RFC 3484 states:      (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3484#section-4)      4. Candidate Source Addresses      [. . .]         In any case, anycast addresses, multicast addresses, and the         unspecified address MUST NOT be included in a candidate set. Are a

Re: Question about RFC 3484

2011-10-03 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
Brian So, if the RFC 3484, Section 4 Candidate Source Addresses is involved in the reply to datagrams sent to an anycast address, it might be useful to reassess the restrictions that excluded an anycast address from the candidate set, at least for the replies. You would need to start

Re: Question about RFC 3484

2011-10-03 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
Mark, Brian E Carpenter writes: On 2011-09-28 21:42, François-Xavier Le Bail wrote: So, if the RFC 3484, Section 4 Candidate Source Addresses is involved in the reply to datagrams sent to an anycast address, it might be useful to reassess the restrictions that excluded an

Re: Question about Subnet-Router anycast address

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Narten
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois-Xavier_Le_Bail?= fx.leb...@yahoo.com writes: If the source address of reply differs from destination address of the request, some applications are broken. If you are saying that applications should ignore the src address (in case it is anycast) when accpting replies,

Re: Question about Subnet-Router anycast address

2011-10-03 Thread François-Xavier Le Bail
--- On Mon, 10/3/11, Thomas Narten nar...@us.ibm.com wrote: fx.leb...@yahoo.com writes: If the source address of reply differs from destination address of the request, some applications are broken. If you are saying that applications should ignore the src address (in case it is

FW: New Version Notification for draft-george-6man-3627-historic-00.txt

2011-10-03 Thread George, Wes
At IESG's recommendation and with the support of the authors of 3627 and 6164, I put together a quick one-pager making 3627 historic. I think this one can move through quickly, but since the other documents went through 6man, I thought it made sense to ask for WG adoption of this document.