At Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:05:21 +0200,
Niklas Neumann <niklas.neumann@cs.uni-goettingen.de> wrote:
Thank you for your response. Just to make it perfectly clear to me:
How long is a unicast address valid?
Until its valid lifetime expires.
- Until the host gets disconnected from the link?
- Until some timeout expires (e.g. Router Lifetime, DHCP Lifetime)?
- Some other trigger (e.g. L2 trigger)?
So link disconnection or other L2 triggers are not supposed to have any
impact on the lifetime?
No.
I don't know why you're so much worrying about such corner cases.
Maybe you have some specific implementation and/or situation in your
mind where the interpretation of these points matter much. As a
separate followup indicated, you may want to explain your intended
scenario. Otherwise the discussion would be superficial (e.g. I can
only say 'No' because it's the answer and I don't know the background
intent of the question).
p.s. I've not noticed this thread has been sent to v6ops. The 6man
list (ipv6@ietf.org) would be a better place for this topic.
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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.