Hello Richard,
Even manually configured global addresses should be required to acquire rights to the corresponding link-local address. Why not? Regards, Charlie P. Richard Draves wrote: > > I disagree. I think the problem is in the RFC 2462 optimization. The RFC > 2462 optimization also can fail with manually-configured addresses - > it's not just a problem with RFC 3041 temporary addresses. > > I'm curious about the implementation status. I know the Windows > implementation does not implement the RFC 2462 optimization - it > performs DAD on every address independently. What about other > implementations? > > Rich > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Charles E. Perkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 10:03 AM > > To: Hesham Soliman (ERA) > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] '; 'IPng Working Group ' > > Subject: Re: [mobile-ip] Issue #23 and Issue #30 > > > > > > > > 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
