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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:39:19 +0900 (JST)
From:      Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        prabhakar.lakhera@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPv6 stacks responds to all node link local multicast NS
Message-ID:  <20141018.143919.1930138986692891609.hrs@allbsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CALg%2BrhVZFc=vE%2BnZS-hsm%2BUc54kZwzO6N8qThG9uv%2Be-e2uh5w@mail.gmail.com>
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prabhakar lakhera <prabhakar.lakhera@gmail.com> wrote
  in <CALg+rhVZFc=vE+nZS-hsm+Uc54kZwzO6N8qThG9uv+e-e2uh5w@mail.gmail.com>:

pr> This probably is more of a compliance issue (or may be not as the NS
pr> receipt section of RFC 4861 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4861#page-62 does
pr> not talk about it).
pr>
pr> The neighbor solicitation message format says this:
pr>
pr> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4861#page-22
pr>
pr>
pr>       Destination Address
pr>                      Either the solicited-node multicast address
pr>                      corresponding to the target address, or the target
pr>                      address.
pr>
pr>
pr> Is it safe to assume that this is a MUST?
pr> If yes, nd6_ns_input right now only checks if the destination is a
pr> multicast or not (the check is more strict for DAD NS packets) and
pr> therefore allows all node link local multicast address resolution NS
pr> packets and process them completely (creates neighbor cache, responds
pr> with NA etc).

 What is the problem when accepting NS messages to ff02::1?

-- Hiroki

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