Re: Why has RFC 4941 been designed in such a way, that it might causeaddress conflicts?

2011-03-21 Thread Timothy Winters
Hello, The UNH-IOL has made a white paper from the event available on the IPv6 homepage. As Hemant stated there were issues discovered around DAD and the need for it. Regards, Tim On Mar 20, 2011, at 7:09 PM, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote: -Original Message- From: Brian E

Re: Question on conformance to RFC3879

2010-11-05 Thread Timothy Winters
Hi Brian, The current test specification is inline with your statements below. We essentially have the device learn a site-local prefix and make sure it treats it as a run of the mill global address. Regards, Tim On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Brian Haberman wrote: On 11/4/10 6:08 AM,

Hop Limit zero processing for a Router

2010-11-03 Thread Timothy Winters
Hello, At the UNH-IOL we recently received a router implementation that discards a packet when it receives a packet with a hop limit of zero. Based on the following quote from RFC 2460, The packet is discarded if Hop Limit is decremented to zero. If router is the end-node it should

Re: Hop Limit zero processing for a Router

2010-11-03 Thread Timothy Winters
Hi Thomas and Brian, Thanks for the help. I will discuss the matter with the implementor. My understanding is that this was a software decision based on there reading of 4443. Regards, Tim On Nov 3, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Brian Haberman wrote: Hi Tim, On 11/3/10 8:00 AM, Thomas