Re: [DNA] Re: No FastRA unless Landmark?(draft-pentland-dna-protocol-00)

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

Greg Daley wrote:

> "If the source address of the RS is NOT the unspecified address,
>  AND the RS message contains a Landmark option, the router consumes
>  one unicast send token and then builds a Router Advertisement as
>  follows:"
> 
> 
> It would be good to know why Hash Based Fast RA (based on the
> source address only) requires the Landmark Option.

I don't think it does. The current text might just reflect the focus on 
the most important cases, and also tries to limit the number of cases.

But the fastRA decision could be made to be orthogonal to the content of 
the RA (i.e. whether there is a LO or not).

   Erik