On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote:
It's the IPv6 default router for the DHCPv6 client that sends a RA with the M-bit set and seeing such an RA the client initiates DHCPv6. Or the client could initiate DHCPv6 even on receiving an RA with the M-bit cleared. But the fact still remains that the DHCPv6 client did receive an RA from the IPv6 first-hop router to the client. The client is supposed to perform router discovery and send RS. The RA lets the client know what the default router is. If I missed anything, perhaps if you could please draw a diagram and let us know what specific use case I missed.
I'm thinking in the terms of multiple routers on the same LAN but with multiple subnets, the multihoming scenario we're discussing in v6ops.
Your above description makes perfect sense for single homing, and if text like this (how to tie them together) was present in the draft (or a referral to other text describing it), I'd be fine.
Right now I couldn't help reading the text in section 2.3 and wondering how it was supposed to achieve what was described.
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