On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:13 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote: > DAD is also needed to detect duplicates due to host misconfiguration, > such as when a cloned MAC is added to the same network or when addresses > are duplicated by other means (e.g., DHCPv6 misconfiguration). > > I couldn't confirm, but isn't this also not a local decision? I.e., if > DAD fails you might end up with a duplicate address even when you set > your IP addresses based on the burned-in MAC because others could select > the same address randomly (I didn't see how that was avoided by the > self-assignment algorithm).
If you have a duplicate MAC then DAD will not safe you... you cannot communicate anyways because of a layer-2 problem. Henning Rogge _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
