On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:41:28PM +0200, Mihail Costea wrote: > On 1 March 2013 13:11, Antonio Quartulli <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 12:59:18PM +0200, Mihail Costea wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've started implementing DAT for IPv6 and I have a few questions > >> regarding the design. > >> I've already implemented a snooping mechanism for Network Solicitation > >> package, > > > > I forgot to ask here: packets generated by the IPv6 the Neigh Discovery > > Protocol > > are sent on a periodic basis, right? so what is the idea behind the snooping > > mechanism? There is not a request (like for ARP), right? So when should the > > data > > in distributed table be used? > > From what I understood the Neighbor Solicitation and Neighbor > Advertisement packets are the ARP equivalents. > So if we receive a Neighbor Solicitation than we would use the > distributed table and send the Neighbor Advertisement directly.
Oh ok, It was my fault. I quickly re-read part of the RFC4861: only router advertisement are sent on a periodic basis, while the neighbour advertisement is asynchronously sent either on address change or as a reply to a neighbour solicitation. Thanks. Cheers, -- Antonio Quartulli ..each of us alone is worth nothing.. Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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