Re: [v6ops] draft-ietf-6man-grand : saving lookups

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Aug 11, 2020, at 1:20 PM, Templin (US), Fred L <[e-mail]> wrote:
> I have more or less punted on the subject of SLAAC and consider the NBMA links I am
> dealing with as link-local-only. SLAAC brings the problem of what to do about DAD
> and MLD. I think on-link prefixes on large NBMA links are an unnecessary burden
> and should be avoided – do you see it differently?

No, I think you’re making the right choice for your use case. But for a typical WiFi network, the scale is smaller both in terms of time and number of nodes.
 
> Address resolution is a different question, though; if a node on the NBMA link wants
> to resolve the address of a subnet router for a target destination it can send NS(AR)
> to the solicited-node multicast address corresponding to the target. The “multicast”
> will then go to exactly one node, which is the target subnet router, and the resultant
> NA(AR) is unicast back to the (single) node that sent the NS. Very efficient, and
> again without disturbing the massive numbers of other nodes on the link.

Do WiFi base stations implement this correctly, or do they broadcast?