Hello Hesham,
"Hesham Soliman (ERA)" wrote: > => RFC 2462 makes an optimisation (not a good > one IMHO) that if a node does DAD on link-local > addresses, it 'owns the interface id' for any other > address with any scope. I think this is a good idea. > RFC3041 says that a node can generate a new iid > and does DAD for _that_ address which uses the > new iid. Since this is typically not a link local > address, you could get a conflict if the HA > does not defend all addresses. The problem is that RFC 3041 should require any such node to first acquire rights to the link-local address. I hope that is viewed as an omission, and one which can be quickly repaired. Regards, Charlie P. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
