Could you provide more details? Which host implementation are you using?
- Alain.
On Apr 23, 2004, at 12:38 PM, Russell Brian wrote:
Hello,
We have actually designed a large-scale system making use of the M flag as
it was a large part of RFC 2462 and we were not aware that IETF would be
considering deprecating it. Please take this into consideration in your
discussions.
Regards,
Brian Russell Systems Engineer
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Subject: Re: [rfc2462bis] whether we need the M/O flags
Jinmei,
I agree with your analysis, except that I'm not so much worried about breaking somebody's assumption in designing an hypothetical client dealing with the O/M bits. The definition of those bits was obscure in 2462 anyway. I would be more worried if this was to result in demonstrated operational problems. I honestly believe that there won't be any as deprecating O & M will end up being equivalent to today's most common practice where those bits are not set. Nothing breaks today under those circumstances, so I do not see what should break tomorrow if we were to deprecate those 2 bits!
Of course, if someone could point to a real case scenario where this would be a problem, that could change my opinion...
- Alain.
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