Hello 

I have got some basic questions regarding the need to perform DAD and a 
confirmation would be appreciated

Obviously DAD is performed to check the uniqueness of the auto-configured data, 
but since the auto-configured address is formed by appending the prefix 
advertised by RA with the MAC address of the interface, and since MAC addresses 
are globally unique then why perfom DAD?

For example when a MN moves to a visit net, then if for example if the MAC 
address is AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF and the advertised prefix was 2001:001b::1/64 then 
the newly autoconfigured address would be  2001:001b:0:1:AABB:CCFF:FEDD:EEFF.
Am I correct? If i am then under what circumstances can this address have a 
conflict with any other node on the new link as the MAC address is globally 
unique???

A reply is eagerly awaited

ZFaqeer




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