On 08/11/2012 06:39 PM, Karl Auer wrote: > If the duplicates ARE on the same link, then you have > a real problem at layer 2 anyway.
It sucks -- e.g., performance-wise. However, if the layer above 2 employs addressing (e.g. IPv4 and IPv6), things should still work even in the presence of *this* problem. Traditional SLAAC addresses deriving the IPv6 address from the (now non-unique) MAC address introduces a different problem. Cheers, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------