RFC 5549 - IPv4 Routes with IPv6 next-hop - Does it really exists?
Saku Ytti
saku at ytti.fi
Wed Jul 29 15:54:57 UTC 2020
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 18:51, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> In reality, next hop isn’t really a layer 3 address. The layer 3 address is a stand-in that is resolved to
> a layer 2 address for forwarding. The layer 3 next-hop address never makes it into the packet.
I wish you had shared in the draft process so they could have
benefitted from your insight into the proper verbiage.
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