On Aug 11, 2012, at 1:33 AM, Ole Trøan wrote: > Fred, > >> 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)? > > implementations I'm familiar with do 1. > it may be a fair assumption that if an address based on the MAC address is > duplicate, the MAC address itself is a duplicate.
And that relates to privacy addresses how? -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
