SInce the WG is being asked to adopt a draft it would seem rather natural to explain the context of the usage more clearly, especially as it appears that this usage context has a rather serious pitfall when used alongside a regular IPv6 client (leaving such a client with no connectivity after an RS timeout).
-Woj. On 18 August 2010 18:01, Alan Kavanagh <alan.kavan...@ericsson.com> wrote: > Hi Ole > > I believe its also true in that the host tx the RS and Edge node then > responds with the RA as oppose to the Edge node txing the RA. This is really > a BBF issue on how the BNG operates and should be taken up in BBF. > > Alan > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > Ole Troan > Sent: August-18-10 11:12 AM > To: Suresh Krishnan > Cc: Brian Haberman; IPv6 WG Mailing List > Subject: Re: Consensus call on adopting:draft-krishnan-6man-rs-mark-06.txt > > Suresh, > > >> that wasn't quite the question I asked. DHCPv6 has a well defined > mechanism to periodically retry, while RS client sending simply timeout. > This would seemingly leave such clients in the proposed scheme with no > connectivity. > > > > I do see your problem, but that problem is common to all existing SLAAC > clients and is not specific to LIO. If your problem is "RFC4861/62 compliant > clients give up after retransmitting an RS 3 times", I am not sure what this > draft can do about it. > > I think the main difference is that for all other SLAAC hosts, they will > receive a multicast RA which will trigger SLAAC. > is that also going to happen in this case? > > cheers, > Ole > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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