(usagi-users 00537) Re: [mipl] Re: Autoconfiguration problem with radvd

["Venkata Jagana" <jagana@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>As a first step, we have configured the addresses manually and
>>we haven't found any issues. However, with radvd, we thought
>>that we should be able to autoconfigure even router
>>interfaces (so that the route entries are also created
>>automatically for these two subnets) and then enabled forwarding
>>on the required interface(s) to go across the router. I don't see
>>any issue with it and haven't found any info on NDP regarding
>>why routers shouldn't be autoconfigured at all.

>          RFC2462, very first portion specifically mentions "host
>          autoconfiguration".  in IPv6 terminology "host" = "not router".

True, RFC2462 talks about 'host' autoconfiguration only but doesn't talk
about routers as clearly specified in the last but one paragraph
of section 1 of RFC2462. My understanding is that it doesn't mean
'autoconfiguration' is limited to 'hosts only'.

However, in RFC 2461 (NDP), section 3 (protocol overview), there is
a definition for 'address autoconfiguration' problem - "how nodes
automatically
 configure an address for an interface". Here 'nodes', according to
IPv6 terminology, refer to either routers or a hosts.  So, I believe,
the autoconfiguration could be applied to either of them.

Thanks,
Venkat

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Venkata R Jagana
IBM Beaverton
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