Re: IPv6 Deployment for the LAN

[Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au>]

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 11:08 +0000, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 09:44:38PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 10:30 +0000, bmanning () vacation karoshi com wrote:
> > > > The RA contains a preference level... maybe that doesn't cut it if
> > >
> > >   I point you to a fairly common Internet architecture artifact,
> > >   the exchange point...  dozens of routers sharing a common
> > >   media for peering exchange.  
> >
> > And how do they discriminate now, with IPv4?
>
>       IPv4 has no concept of RA/ND.  to make this construct work at
>       all in IPv6, all participants have to turn -off-  RA/ND to prevent
>       one or more routers trying to impose their views of addressing
>       on their neighbours.

But my question was not about IPv6. How do IPv4 routers operate in such
a situation?

Regards, K.

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