Re: draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-01

Philip Homburg <pch-ipv6-ietf-6@u-1.phicoh.com> Mon, 25 March 2019 10:18 UTC

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In your letter dated Sun, 24 Mar 2019 21:47:19 +0100 you wrote:
>This would basically be a host sending a packet from itself to itself
>via the router.  The destination address should be a GUA from the PIO
>formed on the interface, but the contents and source address I'm less
>sure of (could be from link-local or the same GUA or a different
>on-link GUA, could be a ping or a unicast NS or a UDP packet to a port
>the host opens, ...).

Assuming we are still talking about the problem introduced in 
draft-gont-6man-slaac-renum-01 (i.e. a CPE reboots and gets a new
prefix using DHCPv6-PD), this sounds like a rather heavy weight mechanism
for a relatively rare problem.