DAD - on or off

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Jun 26 09:49:51 CEST 2013


On 06/26/2013 05:38 AM, Merike Kaeo wrote:
> Hi.
>
> As more deployments are ongoing, what are folks doing with router
> (and critical server) interfaces wrt DAD?  I briefly followed RFC4429

Nothing.

> 'Optimistic Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) for IPv6'  but am
> wondering whether people turn off DAD on router interfaces in
> practice.
>
> Scenario: a. router has an IPv6 address b. someone creates a node
> with same IPv6 address c. router reboots
>

Why would it reboot?


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