Re: ICMPv6 question

james woodyatt <jhw@google.com> Fri, 01 September 2017 17:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: ICMPv6 question
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:34:05 -0700
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On Aug 31, 2017, at 17:26, Mark Smith <markzzzsmith@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I was wondering about how this could happen and I think there could be two possible causes,
> 
> - incorrect ND cache entry for 2001:db8::baa2001:db8::baa […]
> - host attached to one end of a point-to-point link […]

A third case, which isn’t an error or failure mode:

- transmitter is not yet unaware that receiver has transitioned from router to host.


--james woodyatt <jhw@google.com <mailto:jhw@google.com>>