Subject: [nemo] Alternative to TD: forbid MR become AR until BAck received

From: Alexandru Petrescu <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:34:41 +0200

Hi all,

I propose that instead of using TD, require MR's to not set Router
Lifetime in their RA's on their ingress interfaces to zero, until
they haven't received positive BAcks (don't become AR until BAck).
Thus, if other MR's attach to it, they know that this MR can not be
quite used as a default router.

A MR connected to the Internet is a MR that has a tunnel up to its HA
and it too has a tunnel to the MR.

This may help with the not-so-clear looping problem.

This is a matter of configuration, not any protocol matter.

Aleex