RE: [rfc2461bis] Security issues

["Soliman Hesham" <H.Soliman at flarion.com>]

Thanks, I'll update the text and reference accordingly.

Hesham

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Erik Nordmark [mailto:Erik.Nordmark at sun.com]
 > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:17 AM
 > To: Soliman Hesham
 > Cc: James Kempf; ipv6 at ietf.org
 > Subject: RE: [rfc2461bis] Security issues
 > 
 > 
 > >    The
 > >    details of how one uses ND on NBMA links is an area for further
 > >    study.
 > > 
 > > => Perhaps this statement can be made clearer. I assume that
 > > it is referring to applying some form of multicast to 
 > > NBMA links? Perhaps Erik or Thomas can shed some light
 > > on the intention here. 
 > 
 > When the document was written the IPv6 over NBMA didn't 
 > exist yet (RFC 2491).
 > 
 > It might make sense to add an informative reference to that work.
 > 
 > FWIW RFC 2491 basically says that a NBMA supports IPv6 by 
 > using RFC 2022 (MARS)
 > which emulates multicast; thus from IP's perspective it 
 > isn't a non-broadcast
 > network any more even though the L2 itself is non-broadcast.
 > 
 >   Erik
 > 
 > 

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