RE: Comments on draft-jinmei-ipv6-rfc2462bis-00.txt

[john.loughney@nokia.com]

Hi all,

> > 	but then, if we change it to MAY, what is the point in running DAD
> > 	process?  if you do not disable interface (or the address on the
> > 	interface) the owner of the same address will get confused,
> > 	peers of the address get confused, you will do bad things to the
> > 	original owner of the address.  
> >
> 
> I see disabling the interface and disabling the address on the interface
> as two separate actions.
> 
> So, I agree that the interface MAY be disabled.

Agreed. It is Duplicate ADDRESS Detection, so disabling the address is reasonable,
disabling the interface is probably too strong.

John

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