netdev - Re: possible bug in IPv6 MLD retransmissions

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Message-ID: <OF2FF7FDBF.29F92AB4-ON85257B73.00649006-85257B73.00652081@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 14:24:34 -0400
From:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
To:	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: possible bug in IPv6 MLD retransmissions

Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com> wrote on 05/22/2013 01:27:11 PM:

> It becomes a bug (and that's why I started with 'possible') if dad
> completes after the two MLD reports sent with ``::'' source, because
> routers will ignore those initial reports and the system is left out.

No, unsolicited reports are not necessary for MLD. If there are no
other listeners for a group, the reports will be triggered within
one query interval after a valid LL addr is there.

                                                                +-DLS

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