RE: the protocol for the O flag

2004-05-10 Thread Tony Hain
Actually there is an operational simplicity case to be made for hosts doing PD. In the scenario where the ISP wants to provide a 1:1 mapping between customer & prefix, but the customer hasn't acquired a router yet. This can be done with discrete RAs when customers are on independent interf

RE: the protocol for the O flag

2004-05-10 Thread Christian Huitema
Prefix delegation is a somewhat different animal than your average DHCP lookup. It only makes sense in routers, not hosts. In fact, it is unclear whether the DHCP server for prefix delegation should be the same as the DHCP server for DNS configuration. I think we should leave prefix del

Re: IPv6 Work Group Last Call for "IPv6 Host to Router Load Sharing"

2004-05-10 Thread Tim Hartrick
On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 08:20, Tim Chown wrote: > I agree. This point has been made in previous discussions of the draft... I agree as well. There are environments where load balancing is desirable and environments where is is not desirable. MAY is the right word for this circumstance. tim

Re: the protocol for the O flag

2004-05-10 Thread Ralph Droms
Yes, your original analysis is correct... Seems like the protocol associated with the 'O' bit should be RFC 3736; there is no particular advantage to using the 4 message exchange of RFC 3315 for "other configuration information". The only potential advantage would be if there is ever a need for "

the protocol for the O flag

2004-05-10 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
(changing the subject) > On Sat, 08 May 2004 23:39:20 +0900, > JINMEI Tatuya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I think the O flag (if we keep it!) should simply specify DHCPv6, with no >> implication about the way in which DHCPv6 is used. >> "Stateless DHCPv6" is simply a way to use some of

Re: IPv6 Work Group Last Call for "IPv6 Host to Router Load Sharing"

2004-05-10 Thread Tim Chown
I agree. This point has been made in previous discussions of the draft... Tim On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 03:37:24PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > i have problem understanding the intent of first paragraph of section 2. > > >When a host chooses from multiple equivalent routers, it