Hi, Bob, On 08/11/2012 12:36 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: >>> There would appear to be two options: >>> (1) "ah, OK, I guess I didn't really want to talk today" >>> (2) Following RFC 4941, guess again until one creates a unique address >>> >>> Is it fair to assume that implementations do DAD and follow (2)? >> >> implementations I'm familiar with do 1. >> it may be a fair assumption that if an address based on the MAC address is >> duplicate, the MAC address itself is a duplicate. > > True, but the odds of this happening are very low. I wonder if we have any > data on DAD detecting duplicate addresses and their cause.
Virtual machines? Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
