On Aug 11, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Fernando Gont wrote:

> 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?

Good point.  

Thanks,
Bob


> 
> Cheers,
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> Fernando Gont
> SI6 Networks
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