From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 7 05:47:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E97106566C for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 05:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Jinmei_Tatuya@isc.org) Received: from mon.jinmei.org (mon.jinmei.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:3:36::162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0271A8FC1A for ; Thu, 7 May 2009 05:47:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Jinmei_Tatuya@isc.org) Received: from jmb.jinmei.org (user-64-9-233-161.googlewifi.com [64.9.233.161]) by mon.jinmei.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76D5333C2E; Wed, 6 May 2009 22:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 22:47:35 -0700 Message-ID: From: JINMEI Tatuya / =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCP0BMQEMjOkgbKEI=?= To: Bob Van Zant In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) Emacs/22.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 05:47:41 -0000 At Wed, 06 May 2009 17:17:52 -0700, Bob Van Zant 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.