Subject: RE: source and dst addr for Neighbor Solicitation

From: "Bound, Jim" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 23:29:34 -0500

Because you can.

/jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay Devarapalli [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:18 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: source and dst addr for Neighbor Solicitation
> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> A simple question. When would you ever use global source
> and destination addresses for a neighbor solicitation. 
> And why?
> 
> IMO, link local addresses must be used. But RFC 2461 does 
> not say this. It just says an address configured to the 
> interface. That can mean global addresses. I saw such a
> packet at Connectathon (going on in San Jose).
> 
> Vijay
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