>>>>> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 11:38:21 +0530,
>>>>> "O.L.N.Rao" <[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.
> I think that Unsolicted RA *ALWAYS* sent to "All Nodes Multicast Address -
> ff02::1".
Oops, I missed the condition of "the RA desitination is
unicast"...hmm, then it may make sense to set the state to REACHABLE
immediately.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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