Erik, I have seen NUD packets dropped during congestion, and for traffic to periodically drop out for re-resolution. I agree with the goal of making NUD more robust. However, there may be other approaches besides retransmitting more times.
- Wes On 5/23/11 2:46 PM, "Erik Nordmark" <[email protected]> wrote: > > This draft proposes to change the requirement that NUD can not > retransmit more than three times, so that NUD can be more robust against > temporary network outages. > > Comments? > > Erik > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: New Version Notification for > draft-nordmark-6man-impatient-nud-00.txt > Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 11:43:16 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > A new version of I-D, draft-nordmark-6man-impatient-nud-00.txt has been > successfully submitted by Erik Nordmark and posted to the IETF repository. > > Filename: draft-nordmark-6man-impatient-nud > Revision: 00 > Title: Neighbor Unreachability Detection is too impatient > Creation date: 2011-05-23 > WG ID: Individual Submission > Number of pages: 5 > > Abstract: > IPv6 Neighbor Discovery includes Neighbor Unreachability Detection. > That function is very useful when a host has an alternative, for > instance multiple default routers, since it allows the host to switch > to the alternative in short time. This time is 3 seconds after the > node starts probing. However, if there are no alternatives, this is > far too impatient. This document proposes an approach where an > implementation can choose the timeout behavior to be different based > on whether or not there are alternatives. > > > > > > The IETF Secretariat > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > [email protected] > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
