No RS after valid lifetime times out

2004-09-30 Thread Christian Schild
Hiho, after we experimented a lot with (especially short) lifetimes on various platforms and tested renumbering procedures, I have an urgent question. Shouldn't a client react when its valid lifetime times out and the interface loses the address? There may be a number of reasons why RAs stop

Re: No RS after valid lifetime times out

2004-09-30 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: after we experimented a lot with (especially short) lifetimes on various = short prefix lifetimes are not the common case: prefix lifetimes are at least in months and are announced in days. And don't forget the 2 hour rule. platforms and tested

Re: No RS after valid lifetime times out

2004-09-30 Thread Stig Venaas
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 03:02:46PM +0200, Francis Dupont wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: after we experimented a lot with (especially short) lifetimes on various = short prefix lifetimes are not the common case: prefix lifetimes are at least in months and are announced in days.

Re: No RS after valid lifetime times out

2004-09-30 Thread Erik Nordmark
Christian Schild wrote: I would have expected, that immediately when an interface removes its (last) global address, it will try to obtain a new one, sending out an immediate RS. This is not the case on various platforms. RFC2462 does not give this advise or at least I was unable to find it. Nor