Call this "making sure I'm on the same page as anyone else"… RFC 4941 describes privacy addresses, and RFC 4291 describes an EID based on a MAC Address. RFC 4862 describes stateless address autoconfiguration, and uses RFC 4861's duplicate address detection mechanism.
My question is: what happens if any of them discovers that it has created an address that is already in use in the network? There would appear to be two options: (1) "ah, OK, I guess I didn't really want to talk today" (2) Following RFC 4941, guess again until one creates a unique address Is it fair to assume that implementations do DAD and follow (2)? -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
