Hi, Dominik, On 04/04/2012 03:55 PM, Dominik Elsbroek wrote: > the discussion on the mailing list titled "RA "requires" DHCPv6 ?" is > quite confusingto me since RFC 4862 states, the flags M and O are > removed, but not deprecated.
What's removed is the corresponding text, not the bits. See page 19 of RFC 4861: the bits are still there. > They don't even longer exist, but still > exist? I'm curious about why the corresponding text was removed. In particular when at the time (2007) the DNS options was not yet widely implemented, and hence you *needed* DHCPv6 to learn the addresses of recursive DNS servers dynamically. Thanks, -- Fernando Gont SI6 Networks e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
