On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, [EUC-KR] �ڼ�ȫ wrote: > >The purpose of DAD is not to detect MAC address duplication, but IP > >address duplication. > > Generally, MAC (IEEE 802 48bit) duplication occurs IP address duplication > with same Interface ID. > Also I didn't mention that the purpose of DAD was to detect MAC duplication in this > draft. > The intent of this approach is that we can not detect the same MAC and IP address in > 802.11 environment > with existing DAD procedure.
DAD does not detect (or rather, is not meant to detect) MAC duplication in regular wired Ethernet. Then why not being able to detect it in 802.11 is a problem? Note that DAD as specified still works in 802.11 perfectly, AFAICS. > >Perhaps this would speak for some form of applicability statement for DAD, > >to be clear what it is meant to solve and what it isn't. > > So far there is not any applicability statement for DAD without > 802.11 environment. Which was my point: one should be created :-) -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
