Re: router addresses (was Re: MVP for a DHCP server (was Re: ISC's EoL dhcp suite, including dhcpd))

heasley <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:10:40 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network
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Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:09:53PM +0100, Roy Marples:
> I'm a believer that routers SHOULD have an address ending in .1 or ::1

There are protocol election preferences that dictate that you want the highest
subnet addresses to be routers.  eg: PIM DR