Re: [DNA] Ordering Hash-based RAs

[Erik Nordmark <erik.nordmark@sun.com>]

Greg Daley wrote:

> I agree that the effects aren't necessarily severe.
> 
> In some environments though, it may be possible for a bogus router to
> then advertise additional addresses to generate further delays.
> This is much harder to do if the ordering of the router ranks is
> unpredictable.

Yes, but it is probably much easier to just generate RAs claiming to be 
a router (and generating "spoofed" RAs declaring that the real routers 
have a zero default router lifetime), which would make the link more or 
less stop functioning.

> Spreading out the responses sounds like a good thing to do in any case,
> as you point out though.

Yep.

    Erik