3 Aug 2004 20:24
Re: VRRP for IPv6 and ND RA
Bob Hinden <bob.hinden <at> nokia.com>
2004-08-03 18:24:30 GMT
2004-08-03 18:24:30 GMT
Sorry for not responding sooner about this topic. Let me try to inject some more information in the discussion. The host side rules about the selection of a default router could result in all of the hosts selecting the same next hop default router, but they do not require it. I haven't gone back over the specification in detail, but I think that in most cases it would depend on the order a hosts heard the RA. It could range from a very even distribution to all hosts using the same default router. There is an issue here, but it isn't different from VRRP for IPv4 as this is completely unspecified in IPv4 ARP/RouterDiscovery/etc. There are two documents in the IPv6 working group that relate to this. These are: IPv6 Host to Router Load Sharing http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipv6-host-load-sharing-02.txt Abstract The original IPv6 conceptual sending algorithm does not do load- sharing among equivalent IPv6 routers, and suggests schemes which can be problematic in practice. This document updates the conceptual sending algorithm so that traffic to different destinations can be distributed among routers in an efficient fashion. and(Continue reading)
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