>However, when a packet from an "off-link" network is employed, the
>sending node has no way of knowing where to send the packet, unless it
>simply swaps the src and dst mac addresses, and uses the source address
>of the packet as the destination addresses.
No, a node can just use the normal IP
> Good point, and probably an indication that my provider's setup is
> broken. But in terms of RFC-perspective, RAs and ND are not strictly
> related, I believe - for example, prefixes might have been configured
> manually (?).
Hmm, I forgot one case: NBMA (Non-broadcast multiple-access). A prefix
In your letter dated Wed, 4 Mar 2020 21:10:09 +0100 you wrote:
>This flag was introduced in a 2008 Security Advisory, because "non-neighbors"
>could abuse Neighbor Discovery to potentially cause denial-of-service situatio
>ns.
>In my situation it caused valid Neighbor Solicitation packets from my
Hi,
I'm using FreeBSD library code for some other project and I needed AI_V4MAPPED
and AI_ALL for getaddrinfo. So I wrote some code to support these features.
Is anybody interested in this? I can give you patch to an older version of
getaddrinfo.c. It needs some work, in particular restoring some
