On Aug 17, 2007, at 6:59 AM, "Templin, Fred L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
How can that happen with a DHCPv6 host? RA will always precede DHCPv6
transactions because unless the host sees an RA with M bit set the
host
will not initiate DHCPv6.
That doesn't make much sense; if a node doesn't hear
RAs, why wouldn't it try DHCPv6 before giving up?
It seems to me that the semantic content of RA with M=1 is to signal
to DHCP-capable nodes that no further delay is necessary... DHCP
discovery can proceed immediately.
One wonders why they would bother waiting in the first place given the
significant probability that DHCP service is deployed without any RA
whatsoever.
So, it seems natural to ask... what good is the M bit anyway?
-jhw
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