Re: kern/51531: Recent networking regression affecting installs

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51531; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/51531: Recent networking regression affecting installs
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 20:20:36 +0000 (UTC)

 joerg%bec.de@localhost (Joerg Sonnenberger) writes:
 
 >In short, *any* assumption that a freshly configured network interface
 >is going to be ready RSN are wrong.
 
 Of course nobody really cared because in practice it just worked.
 
 It started to be wrong when enforcing DAD.
 It is so well-known to be wrong that people invented optimistic DAD
 to reduce the extra delay, but so far only for IPv6. DAD on IPv4
 seems to be less common.
 
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