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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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