On Saturday 25 April 2009 22:32:35 ext Christian Huitema wrote: > > A host may have multiple default gateways on the same "interface". > > However, those gateways should be usable interchangeably. All of those > > gateways should have the same "values" for the properties above. > > Otherwise, I would argue the network is broken and/or the host is > > misconfigured. In other words, it can pick any of its live gateways > > outbound, and may receive packets from any of those gateways in the other > > direction. If I'm not mistaken, the IETF IPv6 wireless network is an > > example of this. > > There are obvious examples where multiple gateways make sense. For example, > a home network could have routers attached to different broadband > providers, with different bandwidth and different connectivity > characteristics. Rémi, you may believe that this is a configuration error, > but it is only an error because our protocols do not handle that > configuration very well. It is a configuration error. If only because existing devices on the network assume that those gateways work the way I said, interchangeably. > I would expect MIF to address the problem and > suggest fixes... I doubt MIF can solve backward compatibility. -- Rémi Denis-Courmont Nokia Devices R&D, Maemo Software, Helsinki _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf