Closing the IPv6 First-Packet Gap with Grand

There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD.
16 points by m_montazeri 37 days ago labs.ripe.net 15 comments
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