In your letter dated Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:03:43 +0930 you wrote:
>These implementations, instead of performing ND NS/NA, "blindly" forward
>IPv6 packets onto directly onto the point-to-point link, regardless of
>whether the destination address exists. If both ends of the link don't
>perform ND NS/NA transactions, the packet will be looped back and forth
>until it's hop count expires - i.e. the ping-pong problem.

The problem is that for some reason access providers tend to disable support
for ND on point-to-point links. Which in turn requires stacks on consumer
machines to disable it as well.

I have 4 point-to-point links and last time I checked, none of them support
ND.


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