[Babel-users] cornercase issue (link sensing)

[Henning Rogge]

On Mittwoch 29 April 2009 19:11:32 Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Sorry to follow-up on myself.
>
> > In version 2, the neighbour is identified with the link-local IPv6
> > address, so multiple adjacencies between the same two nodes are okay.
>
> Just to be clear: there is no issue at all with conflicting routable
> addresses.  If two neighbours on the same link have the same IPv4
> address, or the same globally routable IPv6 address, Babel will
> distinguish the two since they should have distinct link-local
> addresses.
Theoretically two nodes in "two-hop" range might get the same linklocal IP, 
because they don't share a link, but the node between them would be in 
trouble.

Of course most such problems are layer 8 problems.

Henning
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