RE: quick autoconf question

2000-07-05 Thread Richard Draves
I have a different question in the same context. Assume two nodes node A and node B on the same link. If node A (malicious) does not do *DAD* and sends out a packet with node B's address as source address to B, B should drop the packet. But this is not mentioned in the spec anywhere. It

Re: quick autoconf question

2000-07-05 Thread Mohan Parthasarathy
In your previous mail you wrote: The question has to do with NA NS where the destination address (== the target address) is tentative. = I have an incredibly simple answer: our code doesn't receive packets to a tentative address! Ideally one should not recieve packets

Re: quick autoconf question

2000-07-05 Thread Mohan Parthasarathy
I have a different question in the same context. Assume two nodes node A and node B on the same link. If node A (malicious) does not do *DAD* and sends out a packet with node B's address as source address to B, B should drop the packet. But this is not mentioned in the spec anywhere. It

Re: quick autoconf question

2000-07-02 Thread Jim Bound
rich, might want to check with UNH too to see if they have interpreted it differently. /jim IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive:

Re: quick autoconf question

2000-07-01 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: The question has to do with NA NS where the destination address (== the target address) is tentative. = I have an incredibly simple answer: our code doesn't receive packets to a tentative address! [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: I've put "our" because this

quick autoconf question

2000-06-30 Thread Richard Draves
I'm reviewing the latest TAHI test results. They've added some new tests for autoconfiguration, and one of them raises a question. If I receive a Neighbor Advertisement and the Destination Address in the IPv6 header is a tentative address and the Target Address in the NA is the same tentative

RE: quick autoconf question

2000-06-30 Thread Richard Draves
The question has to do with NA NS where the destination address (== the target address) is tentative. Seems like that shouldn't be happening normally. So the TAHI interpretation seems reasonable. Either way, the cited wording in 2462 could be better. Yes. I'm happy to go with the

RE: quick autoconf question

2000-06-30 Thread Powell, Ken
PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 2:36 PM To: Thomas Narten (E-mail); IPng List (E-mail) Subject: quick autoconf question I'm reviewing the latest TAHI test results. They've added some new tests for autoconfiguration, and one of them raises a question. If I receive a Neighbor