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. A device joins an IPv6 network, receives a Router Advertisement, configures a new IPv6 address, and immediately starts communicating with the Internet.From the host's perspective, everything is ready.
- ▪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.
- ▪A device joins an IPv6 network, receives a Router Advertisement, configures a new IPv6 address, and immediately starts communicating with the Internet.From the host's perspective, everything is ready.
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| Publication time | Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:44:33 +0000 |
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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. A device joins an IPv6 network, receives a Router Advertisement, configures a new IPv6 address, and immediately starts communicating with the Internet.From the host's perspective, everything is ready. It knows the link-layer address of its default router, so it can immediately send packets towards the Internet.However, from the router's perspective, things may look different.
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