Automatic source routing

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Sep 25 00:21:55 CEST 2013


On 24 Sep 2013, at 23:13, Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

> Ole Troan <otroan at employees.org> wrote:
>> 
>> you need source address dependent routing (e.g.
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-troan-homenet-sadr-01)
>> I think the latest kernel has SADR working. enable
>> CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Ole
> 
> Are we talking about hosts or routers here? I know OP wanted a router in his final config but I thought he was asking about the intermediate dual-attached host. And doesn't rule 5 / 5.5 of rfc 6724 cover this?

This is primarily routing, as envisaged for future homenets where there may be nested routing and multiple exit routers for example. 

Tim



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