Re: Multicast Listener Discovery Report and DAD/Autoconfiguration

[Brian Haberman <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grubmair Peter wrote:

> For Duplicate address dedection RFC2462,
> a node must join the solicitated-node-multicast
> address before Duplicate Address dedection.
> For verifying link-local address, this will mean, that
> only a tentative link-local address is available.
> I would like to know, which source address shall
> be used in MLD Report, as RFC2710 requires a link-local
> address, but the link-local address is in state tentative and
> must not be used. Is the unspecified address considered to be link-local ?

If you are worried about MVDv1 (RFC 2710), then the answer is in RFC
3590.  A more useful approach is to implement MLDv2 (RFC 3810).

Regards,
Brian

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