Hi,
i am also on the learning stage of IPV6 and as per RFC 2461 & 2462 i think, to speedup
the autoconfiguration, router solicitation message (with source address Unspecified)
can be sent while DAD is in progress.
Regards,
Ramakrishnan
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 NAKAJIMA Nobuyasu wrote :
> Hello,
>
> I am a newbie to this list. I apologize if my question
> is frequently
> asked.
>
> RFC2462 says that the node only accepts particular
> Neighbor
> Solicitation and Neighbor Advertisement messages during
> DAD process,
> and other packets should be discarded. So the node
> behavior of the
> packet reception part in the process of DAD is clear to
> me.
>
> My question is whether the node in the process of DAD
> can send the
> packets other than Neighbor Solicitations for the
> purpose of DAD.
>
> RFC2462 says that the tentative address cannot be
> assigned to the
> interface. So I think the node cannot send packets
> before completing
> DAD. Is this interpretation correct?
>
> I would appreciate if somebody would answer to this
> question.
>
> Thanks
> -----
> Nobuyasu Nakajima
> Toshiba America Research, Inc.
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