Hello! > - Routing table will have lots of address prefixes that are not available > to the local interface addresses. Well, all the direct routes are prefixes by definition. > - To be a prefix list entry, it should come via an RA. Wrong. But this does not matter, RA routes may be tagged with a flag. > - Also, the search over a longer routing table across all nodes is more > time consuming. Do you jest? You compare linear search with lookup in radix tree. :-) Alexey - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html