[ih] History of duplicate address tests
John Kristoff
jtk at dataplane.org
Tue Nov 29 13:06:20 PST 2022
On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 15:43:08 -0500
"Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis at gmail.com> wrote:
> ARP (RFC 826) trivially enables duplicate IPv4 address detection on
> Ethernet networks (just ARP for your own address and see if anyone
> else responds), so I guess November 1982 for IP over Ethernet.
I had thought of ARP, but wasn't it's use for duplicate address
detection essentially a "hack" that came later?
John
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