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Date:      Wed, 06 May 2009 23:00:19 -0700
From:      Bob Van Zant <bob@veznat.com>
To:        JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?=  <Jinmei_Tatuya@isc.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection
Message-ID:  <C627C703.8199C%bob@veznat.com>
In-Reply-To: <m2iqkdv4zs.wl%Jinmei_Tatuya@isc.org>

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Well that goes all the way back to my first email :-)

"An alternative view on this is that I shouldn't be sending out any packets,
especially unsolicited NAs, using or referencing a tentative address."

This makes sense. I'll stop doing bad things now :-) Thanks for your input
and clearing this up for me.

-Bob


On 5/6/09 10:47 PM, "JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉" <Jinmei_Tatuya@isc.org>
wrote:

> At Wed, 06 May 2009 17:17:52 -0700,
> Bob Van Zant <bob@veznat.com> wrote:
> 
>> I guess that changes my question quite a bit. If you randomly fire off an
>> unsolicited NA right after configuring an interface should that cause a DAD
>> failure?
> 
> Actually, in that case you shouldn't send out the NA in the first
> place because you're in the middle of DAD, trying to confirming the
> uniqueness of the target address.  If you want to send an unsolicited
> NA for an address on which DAD is performed for any reason, you should
> wait until DAD is completed.
> 
> ---
> JINMEI, Tatuya
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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