Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hoon-mobileip-undad-00.txt

Erik Nordmark <[email protected]> Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:18:13 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobileip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The original RFC 2462 DAD is very strong and reliable.
> Just packet losses cause it to be unreliable. But, the all protocols
> are affected by the packet losses.

FWIW it isn't only packet loss that makes it unreliable.
The other case is link partitions.

If the L2 link is partitioned (e.g. down Ethernet switch) when DAD
is performed and the partition later heals then you can end up
with undetected duplicate addresses.

  Erik