Dominik, The M and O flags are defined in RFC4861. They are not removed (or deprecated).
Bob On Apr 4, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Dominik Elsbroek wrote: > Hi all, > > 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. They don't even longer exist, but still > exist? > > But what should a client do now? Is a client asked to request further > information from a DHCPv6 server if it receives a router advertisement > with these bits set? And if, which address should the client use? The > link local FF02:0:0:0:0:0:1:2 (All-dhcp-agents) or the site-local > FF05:0:0:0:0:0:1:3 (All-dhcp-servers)? > > Kind regards, > Dominik > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
