On 12 Dec 2012, at 18:48, Ole Trøan <otr...@employees.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I am a little bit confused what we are talking about.
>> Our draft is necessary when there is no SLAAC.
>>
>> Could you elaborate your viewpoints?
>
> the PIO option in RA has several functions.
>
> 1) with the A-flag on, it is used by SLAAC.
> 2) with the L-flag on, it is used for onlink determination (prefix discovery).
>
> "when there is no SLAAC" does that mean?
> - there is no RA
> - there is an empty RA (no PIO)
> - the PIO has A-flag off
>
> if I understand your draft correctly, you want a DHCPv6 alternative to the RA
> PIO option.
> generally we try to avoid duplicate mechanisms, so could you please give a
> use case?
And so we end up back at
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-droms-dhc-dhcpv6-default-router-00
and
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dhcwg/current/msg09715.html
Tim
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