Re: [rfc2462bis issue 278] 2462bis for "routers"

[Jari Arkko <jari.arkko at kolumbus.fi>]

JINMEI Tatuya wrote:

>    The autoconfiguration process specified in this document applies only
>    to hosts and not routers. Since host autoconfiguration uses
>    information advertised by routers, routers will need to be configured
>    by some other means. However, it is expected that routers will
>    generate link-local addresses using the mechanism described in this
>    document. In addition, routers are expected to successfully pass the
>    Duplicate Address Detection procedure described in this document on
>    all addresses prior to assigning them to an interface.
Strictly speaking, routers need to be configured with prefixes as
well as possibly some routing information, or at least information
sufficient to run routing protocols.

It is not clear to me that their global IP addresses have to configured.
It could be based on its own prefix + IID information, or am I missing
something? Why is there a difference above for link-local and global
addresses?

--Jari


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