A=1 L=0 PIO

Iljitsch van Beijnum iljitsch at muada.com
Tue Aug 16 09:54:38 CEST 2016


On 16 Aug 2016, at 9:25, Erik Kline <ek at google.com> wrote:

> A host won't do on-link computation nor ND but instead send packets
> for other destinations in the same /64 to a router, and rely on ICMPv6
> Redirects to learn which destinations are actually on-link.

The fact that stuff is in the same /64 is meaningless in this case: all traffic goes to the gateway.

Please refer to your CLNP textbooks, that also works like this.  :-)

I seem to remember that MacOS and possibly others don't pay much attention to redirects these days, though.



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