Folks,
This issue was discussed some time ago and we didn't officially resolve
it on the list.
Basavaraj is suggesting that the hard limit of 1800 seconds is
restrictive to some deployments (cellular) and suggests that we increase
it.
Here is how it is currently defined:
MaxRtrAdvInterval
The IESG has received a request from the IP Version 6 Working Group
to consider the following document:
- 'Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6) '
as a Draft Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send any co
Eliot Lear writes:
> Alain,
> > Ipv6 address will be much more stable
> > than EUI64.
> > But, more importantly, they will be centrally assigned, ie can be
> > propagated
> > to places that maitain ACLs.
> >
>
> Just because one receives a DHCP-assigned address doesn't mean one will
> use it,
Alain,
Ipv6 address will be much more stable
than EUI64.
But, more importantly, they will be centrally assigned, ie can be
propagated
to places that maitain ACLs.
Just because one receives a DHCP-assigned address doesn't mean one will
use it, and so such "security" is fraught with risks. I
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 04:57:58PM -0400, James Carlson wrote:
> Bernie Volz (volz) writes:
> > I would think that how an address is assigned shouldn't enter into this.
> > I can't see that it matters.
>
> It matters only in that different assignment mechanisms have different
> inherent stabilitie
Indeed. A changing privacy address can be assigned by DHCP for example.
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 03:00:29PM -0400, Durand, Alain wrote:
> The question is not to get an absolutely stable address,
> but to make sure that in case multiple addresses are defined,
> the one with the highest likelyhood
