>>>>> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 14:31:39 +0200, >>>>> Grubmair Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> To my mind this also will apply to IPv6, allthough the probility that > 2 hosts will use the same address will be much smaller than in IPv4. > But in contrast to <draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-17.txt> > IPv6 ND provides no means to dedect the situation and handle it in any way. > Is this correct ? That's correct. RFC2462 clearly notes the point in Section 5.4: Note that the method for detecting duplicates is not completely reliable, and it is possible that duplicate addresses will still exist (e.g., if the link was partitioned while Duplicate Address Detection was performed). (rfc2462bis does not change this part, for that matter) JINMEI, Tatuya Communication Platform Lab. Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------