Too-frequent change of privacy address / ND monitoring

Phil Mayers p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Wed Mar 27 12:50:16 CET 2013


On 27/03/13 07:47, Erik Kline wrote:

> Totally random crazy idea: could there be firewalls on some of these
> machines that are causing multicast RAs to be filtered but unicast RAs
> are fine (e.g. a unicast RA reply to an RS)?  It could cause a machine
> to think the network went away after a unicast RA response, re-issue an
> RS and create a new tempaddr after the "new" unicast RA arrives.

That's an interesting idea, as is the one about faulty MLD snooping 
(though I don't think it's the latter, for various reasons)





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