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.
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