Re: IPv6 Routing & ND vs. Addressing, (Was: Re: <draft-ietf-6man-rfc4291bis-09.txt>)

[David Farmer <[e-mail]>]

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> On Jul 15, 2017, at 18:59, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> On 16/07/2017 11:37, David Farmer wrote:
>> 
>>>> On Jul 15, 2017, at 17:41, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 16/07/2017 10:22, Nick Hilliard wrote:
>>>>> Ole Troan wrote:
>>>>> This a protocol problem. DAD is built with the assumption that
>>>>> physical links are reliable. 20% packet loss for multicast is common
>>>>> on wifi...
>>>> 
>>>> most protocols will croak at 20% packet loss.  If wifi cannot support
>>>> multicast properly, then this is an 802.11 problem rather than a problem
>>>> with DAD or any of the many other bits of ipv6 that depend on moderately
>>>> reliable multicast.    
>>> 
>>> I'm curious. If DAD has that problem, why doesn't Neighbor Discovery
>>> have an equally bad problem?
>>> 
>>> BTW, Ole is correct. While testing the GRASP prototype at the last IETF,
>>> we discovered a high loss rate for LL multicast on the network.
>>> However, it wasn't primarily due to WiFi. It was due to intentional
>>> multicast throttling in the switches:
>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/anima/g4SUu-Bhkew-54hiJF1VPP8tfcQ
>> 
>> Wifi APs, especially enterprise grade Wifi APs, frequently do arp and ND proxy, and they convert the responses from the proxy to unicast at the 802.11 layer. Sometimes they even only do unicast at the 802.11 layer and replicate all multicast into 802.11 unicasts. Frequently this is more efficient than multicast because of the differences between the basic rate encoding used for multicast packets vs the usually much higher density encoding used for unicast packets.
>> 
>> That usually keeps things working well enough.
> 
> ND proxy shouldn't break DAD, as I understand RFC4389. So logically,
> DAD is just as reliable as basic ND, right?

That is my understanding.  

But I probably should have mentioned that older APs, especially older consumer grade APs, might not have any IPv6 support.  So it might only do arp proxy, and ND and DAD could suck rocks, compared to arp.  Also, another good reason to keep software updated.

Also, obviously adhoc mode WiFi has none of that as there are no APs.