Erik, On 08/19/2013 06:40 AM, Erik Kline wrote: > I pre-apologize, as always, for my ignorance, but...is there an > implementation of this? Specifically, I'm mildly concerned about this > for link-local addresses. > > Compliant implementations cannot even begin any IPv6 link-local > operations until the secret key has been loaded from stable storage. > They also should load the DAD_Counter from non-volatile memory before > starting link-local operations. And they MUST NOT fallback to other > link-local autoconfig implementations (last paragraph of section 4). > > I agree that this all seems fine in theory. Are we collectively > convinced this will not lead to tragically (IPv6-)orphaned machines in > certain scenarios?
Sorry, what are the scenarios you have in mind? 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
