From: ying chang (ying_c@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 12:18:07 GMT-3
Sorry have to ask a practical question. Does anyone know how to set an irdp
client in Win98 or Win2000 environment? I know how to test it with another
router with "ip gdp irdp" in a bridged environment, but could not figure out
how to do it in PC.
Thanks,
Chang
>From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
>Reply-To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: IRDP
>Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 10:03:22 -0400
>
>At 9:21 AM -0400 5/4/02, Curtis Phillips wrote:
>>Hello Group,
>>
>>Is it a correct assumption that IRDP is incapable of providing
>>default-gateway
>>and default gateway failover for networks where the end-systems are
>>incapable
>>of sending ICMP queries to the candidate default-gateways?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Curtis
>
>There's a theoretical and a more or less practical answer to this.
>
>If the end systems are passive but understand ICMP router
>advertisements, then they could make use of IRDP by listening to
>router advertisements.
>
>It may be possible to overcome the first limitation, that of the
>default timers of IDRP router announcements. You'd need to shorten
>them significantly for a host to have a decent chance of learning
>about alternate gateways in a reasonable period of time.
>
>Such a passive host would also have to remember alternate default
>gateways, since it can't depend on sending out a query in the event
>of failure.
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