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Re: Feedback on draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01 (was: Re: Consensus call on adopting:....)

Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> Sat, 14 April 2012 06:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: Feedback on draft-gont-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-01 (was: Re: Consensus call on adopting:....)
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On Sat, 2012-04-14 at 14:24 +0800, Washam Fan wrote:
> So what is the next step if the autoconfiguration fails? static
> configure? If yes. Will the next reboot try autoconfiguration again?
> If yes, you may have non-stable addresses within the same network. If
> no, when you move to another network you should explicitly revoke the
> static configuration and enable autoconfiguration again.

If autoconfiguration fails, then it fails. There is no automated
fallback; the host stays address-less (or at least
stable-address-less :-) until the situation is resolved by external
action.

How the conflict should be resolved is out of the scope of the draft.

> I think the author should clarify this DAD failure issue in the next
> version.

Yes in any case. But I don't think it has to be more complicated than
"if Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) detects an address conflict, the
host MUST NOT use the address." Maybe also add "A host MAY continue to
attempt DAD in the hope that the address conflict is resolved; in this
case additional DAD attempts should be infrequent." The latter allows an
unattended host to recover without assistance.

Regards, K.

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