On Aug 11, 2012, at 12:04 PM, Ole Trøan wrote: >>>> 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? > > it doesn't. is your question how DAD is done for privacy addresses?
My question is for all addresses. I'm getting responses for MAC addresses. > then section 3.3 of RFC4941 is quite clear on that. > > cheers, > Ole ---------------------------------------------------- The ignorance of how to use new knowledge stockpiles exponentially. - Marshall McLuhan -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
