At Tue, 5 May 2009 11:16:02 -0400, "Wes Beebee (wbeebee)" <wbee...@cisco.com> wrote: > > > It's of course unicast (note the "to P::X"). BTW I don't > > understand this part: "the L2 link-layer address of Y is available > > to X when X receives the unicast NUD message." Why is this > > ensured? For example, X may have just been rebooted and its > > neighbor cache may be empty.
> That's because the address that you need is contained in the NUD > packet itself. ??? Do you mean the responding host extracts the link-layer address from the L2 header and uses it to send the NA? And if so, are you arguing that the responding node in question must behave that way to keep this rule? : A host only performs address resolution for IPv6 addresses that are : on-link. --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
