dhcpcd-discuss

Re: dhcpv6 duplicate address detection

Shahid Mahmood

Wed Sep 07 20:38:06 2016

Perfect!
Does this mean dhcpcd implements rfc4862? (sec 5.4 specifically)
(its not listed in the man page)

Thanks
-shahid

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:03 PM, Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Shahid
>
> On 2016-09-07 18:48, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
>
>> Can you kindly described how ipv6 duplicate address is
>> handled/detected by dhcpcd?
>>
>
> For IPv4, dhcpcd implemented DaD as described in RFC3927.
> For IPv6, dhcpcd will monitor the address TENTATIVE and DUPLICATED flags
> as set by the kernel.
>
> The exceptions to the rule are NetBSD and Solaris where dhcpcd will
> monitor the address flags like IPv6.
>
> Roy
>

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