RE: Implementation of the RA Route Information (RFC 4191) option?

2010-01-19 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
This is implemented in Windows Vista onwards. Simha -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Fernando Gont Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:01 AM To: ipv6@ietf.org Cc: v6...@ops.ietf.org Subject: Implementation of the RA Route Informat

RE: Question on RFC 4191 inconsistency

2009-12-08 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
the admin has the option to prevent routing through R3/R4 anyway. Simha -Original Message- From: Erik Nordmark [mailto:erik.nordm...@sun.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 5:25 AM To: Narasimhan Venkataramaiah Cc: Templin, Fred L; IPv6 Maintenance WG Subject: Re: Question on

RE: Question on RFC 4191 inconsistency

2009-12-07 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
packets for P1::/48 on the routers R3 and R4 if they truly want all packets destined to P1::/48 to go over R1 or R2. Simha -Original Message- From: Templin, Fred L [mailto:fred.l.temp...@boeing.com] Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 9:09 AM To: Erik Nordmark; Narasimhan Venkatar

RE: Question on RFC 4191 inconsistency

2009-12-06 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
This behavior is implemented in Vista and Windows 7. Can you explain the concern about unpredictability more? The algorithm reacts to the changes in the network - hence there is bound to be unpredictability on the time line of when the packets start getting routed to a different next hop - but

RE: New draft on "Stub Router Advertisements in IPv6 Neighbor Discovery"

2009-11-25 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
Is the authoritative router supposed to publish the stub router's more specific routes (learnt from the route info options in the stub router's RA) in its routing protocol? If so the security issues with this are much severe than the link local security issues of RFC 4861. If not - then the stub

RE: Thoughts on address selection

2009-11-19 Thread Narasimhan Venkataramaiah
"There is a similar API in Winsock2 that tries multiple destination addresses, but not every pair of destination and source address." In windows 7 you get every pair possible with some restrictions and the ordering is based on improving the chances of success of successful connection completio