[Babel-users] IPv4+6 routing in Babel

Gabriel Kerneis kerneis at pps.jussieu.fr
Fri Sep 4 07:58:48 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 08:16:31AM +0200, Henning Rogge wrote:
> Think about a chain of nodes A-B-C. Each node can see each other,
> except A and C.
> 
> With IPv6 DAD it can happen that A and C choose the same link-local IP
> for their interface, because they cannot see each other. This would
> make it "difficult" for B to address A and C.

This is very unlikely, unless your hardware is deeply broken.  And even
if it is, you can still choose random addresses instead of the MAC. The
odds are against you, I'm afraid ;-)

More seriously, do you have a real-world failure example?

Regards,
-- 
Gabriel Kerneis



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