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[yakov@watson.ibm.com]

Ref:  Your note of Wed, 8 Mar 1995 09:36:48 +0200


Juha,

>one could also separate the next hop resolution problem from the
>address resolution problem.

Yes. This may be a viable alternate.

>when I saw about two years ago that NHRP has its problems, I proposed a
>simple, scalable protocol called NBMA ARP...
>
>now two years have passed and we don't have anything !

Not exactly. We have an example (granted, long overdue) how NHRP can
produce a persistent loop in the router-to-router case. We also have
a proposal (described in two I-Ds) about how to do next hop resolution
for the case of exterior routers -- note that in contrast with NHRP,
this proposal doesn't produce persistent looping.

Yakov.