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

[Greg Daley <greg.daley@eng.monash.edu.au>]

Hi Erik,

Erik Nordmark wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for clarifying.

Greg