In your letter dated Tue, 31 May 2011 11:12:13 +0200 you wrote: >Of course this is possible, but this also means, that a node not doing = >DHCPv6 (because it does not support it or because it is disabled on the = >node), will only get an address of the SLAAC prefix and thus has to go = >to through the network router to have its packets routed the other one. = >So even though both nodes are on the same physical network, all traffic = >has to pass through a router, instead of being exchanged directly = >between the two nodes. This means a lot of unnecessary load for the this = >router to route "local traffic".
No, ND is more clever than that. All traffic between prefixes that are on-link goes directly between the hosts. Even when the prefix is off-link it is possible for the router the send a redirect ICMP to cause further traffic to be directly between the hosts. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
