The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[David Horton <horton@citr.com.au>]

|[David Horton writes:]
|> 1. Target address unclear
|> 
|> Specifically for resolution requests which field contains 
|> the protocol address of the station for which the NBMA address
|> is desired, i.e. the target? 
|> In nhrp-07, it was the "Destination Protocol Address", however
|> I can now place 3 interpretations on the text as written.
|
|
|> (2) Destination Protocol Address is of the target, and that the 
|>     NHRP packet is routed all the way to that target (or the egress
|>     router from the NBMA), and the target responds
|This is the correct interpretation.  I will add clarifying text.

Interesting, because I would have expected (3), where if the target
is on the NBMA, then the NHS would respond rather than the client (NHC).
(Or was my wording rather unclear too :-) )

So clients now have to respond to resolution requests too?

cheers,
David

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