On 12-03-27 17:52, William Herrin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Alexandru Petrescu > If added, I think it should be non-authoritative. That is, the > receiving host can use it briefly to get a jump start on communication > but is expected to promptly perform an ND request for the > authoritative MAC. This would allow a host to recover gracefully in > the inevitable event that the DHCP server and router get out of sync > about the router's MAC address. No, we do not plan adding MAC field. That would give us nothing, but would bring a lot of troubles. In particular, the problem of MAC being mis-configured or becoming out of sync. ND is a good protocol for that purpose and is supported by all devices that claim IPv6 compatibility, so we plan to use it.
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