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Re: [PATCH] IPV6: Deprecate All-on-link Assumption

To: yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPV6: Deprecate All-on-link Assumption
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:08:17 -0700
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:48:30 +0900 (JST)
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If we don't have IPv6 default routes, we assume all ipv6 destinations 
> are on-link as specified in RFC2461. It, however, is considered harmful now;
> it is problematic with IPv6-capable nodes that do not have off-link
> IPv6 connectivity (eg no default routers) and such nodes will take
> a few seconds until they fall back to use IPv4.
> 
> See <draft-ietf-v6ops-onlinkassumption-02.txt> for details.

Applied, thank you.


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