Re: Strawman version of IPv4 Linklocal-09 posted

OK. I've made that change, and in addition have incorporated the
suggestion agreed to in the following post:

http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/zeroconf/msg02555.html

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mika Liljeberg wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 20:30, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> > I've gone ahead and prepared a strawman version of draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-09.txt:
> [...]
>
> > http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/zeroconf/2003-06/msg00007.html
>
> In...
>
>    "If the host has no appropriate
>    routable source address, then it MUST ARP for the destination address
>    and then send its packet, with a link-local source IP address and a
>    routable destination IP address, directly to the destination on the
>    same physical link."
>
> s/MUST/SHOULD/
>
> I don't think we can tell a node not to drop the packet. In addition,
> ARPing for everything does not work with multihoming. There needs to be
> an escape hatch to allow multihomed stacks to implement something
> appropriate (see also kre's followup).
>
> > Comments solicited.
>
> 	MikaL
>