This has a problem if the EID is presumed to have continuity as the locator 
changes. I suspect that what you're really asking for is that if N systems are 
using the same IP layer address (improbable but not impossible), the router 
forward packets headed for it to each MAC Addresses. All except the first one 
would be forced to select locally-assigned MAC Address while in that subnet.

Not sure I want to go there, but the alternatives are:
  - ask the mobile system to change its EID in flight, contrary to ILNP 
assumptions, or
  - lose connectivity to N-1 of the N systems with the same address

I suppose there is in fact one other possibility. The router could <violent 
handwaving> somehow come up with another subnet locator and put the new device 
into the new subnet. That would allow the systems to share a MAC address at the 
MAC layer and enable the end statins to differentiate between their datagrams.

On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Xu Xiaohu wrote:

> The default gateway router of that subnet could simply deem the first
> accessed host (IP_x, MAC_y) as legal while the second host (IP_x, MAC_z) as
> illegal. Thus the malicious host could not grab the IP address which has
> been used by the legal host. 
> 
>> more primitive and simply duplicate any MAC that it sees on its subnet.
> 
> Similarly, the switch could simply deem the first accessed host with MAC_y
> is legal and the second host with the same MAC is illegal.

http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF

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