On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Ralph Droms wrote: > At 09:06 AM 3/12/2003 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: > >On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bound, Jim wrote: > > > In addition the Enterprise wireline networks and IT are not going to > > > give up stateful control with servers and NAS in their networks for a > > > long time with IPv6 is my intelligence from my work with users. > > > >Are servers and NAS configured with DHCPv4 today? > > Yes. The home NAT/router in my basement acts as a DHCP client > on the interface connected to the ISP and as a DHCP server on > the interface to my home network.
That's not what I meant at all, the scope was "enterprise"; I acknowledge your "unmanaged" case. > Your question does raise an interesting issue - where, in the IPv6 > specifications, is the behavior of a router in response to received > router advertisements specified? How does a router behave if > it receives an RA with either or both of the 'M' and 'O' bits > set? RFC2461 6.2.7 gives some insight: nothing is done, based on the current specification (but doing something is not explicitly forbidden either). -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------