[ipv6-ops] Re: DAD - on or off

Aaron Hughes aaronh at bind.com
Wed Jun 26 15:59:25 CEST 2013


+1

Cheers,
Aaron

On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 08:49:51AM +0100, Phil Mayers wrote:
> 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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