Re: [GSoC 2017] IPv6

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Nice progress :)

Joan Lledó, on dim. 02 juil. 2017 10:29:33 +0200, wrote:
> the stack offers the option of
> using DAD[2] to check if the address is already in use. This isn't
> likely to happen, since the interface identifier is based on the link
> address, which should be unique, but I left it enabled just in case.

Yes. It does happen sometimes (particularly with VMs) that there are
duplicates. DAD can also be useful when configuring IPv6 by hand.

Samuel