RIPng

Atsushi Onoe onoe@sm.sony.co.jp
Sat, 10 Aug 96 01:19:22 +0900


Bob,

> One of the motivations for RIPng (and other routing protocols) using
> link-local addresses for exchanging routing information between nodes
> running RIPng is to make it possible to renumber with out breaking the
> routing adjacencies.  This is,  at least to me, an important capability.

Well... it sounds reasonable.  We perhaps needs some extensions to
bsd-api	spec to determine interface where datagram comes in.

Anyway, we are now implementing RIPng based on current RIPng draft,
and it will be available soon.

Atsushi