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, > -- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
