>>>>> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:24:11 +0200 ,
>>>>> Grubmair Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> In page 49, chapter 4.3.4 of draft-soliman-ipv6-2461-bis-01.txt
> it is stated that after reception of Router Advertisement, which
> contains a source link-layer address option, a new
> neighbor cache entry SHOULD be created.
> The state of this new cache entry shall be STALE.
> But to my mind, if the destination address of
> Router advertisement packet is a unicast address of
> the interface, I can set state to REACHABLE.
> This is because this router advertisement must be a
> response to my router solicitation.
This is not correct, since the router advertisement may be an
unsolicited one or a solicited one but in response to other router
solicitations (and your solicitation may have been lost). So we
cannot set the state to REACHABLE in this case.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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