Re: IPv6 neighbour discovery and link local addresses

Hesham Soliman <hesham@elevatemobile.com> Tue, 15 May 2012 07:58 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 17:57:39 +1000
Subject: Re: IPv6 neighbour discovery and link local addresses
From: Hesham Soliman <hesham@elevatemobile.com>
To: Matthew Luckie <mjl@luckie.org.nz>, ipv6@ietf.org
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>Hi
>
>Should a host reply to a neighbour discovery message if the source
>address is a link-local address?

=> Yes.

Hesham

>I read RFC 4861 and did not find
>anything suggesting that a link-local source address is not allowed.
>
>Matthew
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