On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Pim van Pelt wrote: > On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 05:56:58PM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > | On Sat, 4 Jan 2003, Keshava Ayanur wrote: > | > Duplicate Address detection (DAD) scope is only for > | > Or it appilies even for > | > > | > site - for site local address > | > global - for global unicast address. > | > | All. > > How would I do DAD for a global scope address ?
The same as with link-local addresses. > ICMPv6-ND does not seem > appropriate and ICMPv6-echo is surely not what you want. There seems to be some confusion here. DAD is used to guarantee uniqueness of an address on a _link_ (or possibly on a subnet) -- the same for any kind of address, not uniqueness within a scope (e.g. DAD for a global address does not mean it's globally unique). Hope this clarifies. -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Netcore Oy not those you stumble over and fall" Systems. Networks. Security. -- Robert Jordan: A Crown of Swords -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------