>>>>> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:50:23 +0200, >>>>> Grubmair Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On page 25 of 2662bis 07 draft the difficulties for loopback and dad > are explainded. > Maybe dedection of loopbacks (of NS) could be supported by adding > a new option either as NS option or as destination header option. > This option should carry a random identifier of sufficient length. > All packets having an address assigned to the interface (or unspecified > address) > as IPv6 source address and carrying the option with the specified own > identifier would be discarded as loopbacks. (In case you're proposing something as a part rfc2462bis) Ideas something like this have been proposed several times. I don't remember the conclusion of the discussion on each one of them, but, in any event, this is clearly beyond the scope of rfc2462bis. 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------