In your letter dated Tue, 24 May 2011 10:22:09 -0700 you wrote: >On 5/24/11 10:12 AM, Philip Homburg wrote: >With current RFC 4861 this means that the NCE has to be discarded, since >the neighbor is deemed UNREACHABLE. > >Without the NCE, the next time the node tries to send a packet, it will >end up multicasting NS messages.
So you are saying (with a bit exaggeration from my side) that some links in data centers have so many hosts that a network disruption of a few seconds will cause a multicast storm big enough to meltdown the network. With modern CPUs and a Gbit/s network that seems very odd to me. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
