Re: [dhcwg] Brokenness of specs w.r.t. client behavior with M&O bits

2008-10-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Teemu, On 2008-10-27 19:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Joseph, > > Thank you for your responses, comment inline > >> As for your question, I would say that it depends on implementations. >> AFAIK, there are already several opensources like ISC DHCP >> which supports IA_NA(maybe IA_TA) as we

Re: [dhcwg] Brokenness of specs w.r.t. client behavior with M&O bits

2008-10-28 Thread David W. Hankins
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:06:10AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Neither is the current solution described by the RFCs: you are > required to set up both your IPv6 routers and your DHCPv6 server in > order for the system to work consistently. James, we're talking about different things. You're st

Re: [dhcwg] Cost of multicast [was Re: Brokenness of specs w.r.t. client behavior with M&O bits]

2008-10-28 Thread David W. Hankins
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > Obviously multicasts are useful so I'm not saying we can't have any. But in I just want to say that what I'm actually hearing in this is that you'll waffle on the performance criteria you invented so long as it means you get

Re: [dhcwg] Cost of multicast [was Re: Brokenness of specs w.r.t. client behavior with M&O bits]

2008-10-28 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 24 okt 2008, at 18:38, David W. Hankins wrote: What if DHCPv6 servers do not exist? AFAIK, in this thread, the cost of unnecessary multicast DHCPv6 messages which may be prevented through M&O bits are being discussed. That's a separate issue. Iljitsch is proposing that Multicasts must be

Call for agenda items

2008-10-28 Thread Brian Haberman
All, The 6MAN Working Group will be meeting in Minneapolis. If you have items you would like to see on the agenda, please let the chairs know the topic, speaker, and requested amount of time. Regards, Brian & Bob IETF I

Re: [dhcwg] Brokenness of specs w.r.t. client behavior with M&O bits

2008-10-28 Thread David W. Hankins
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 08:15:54AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Unless your DHCPv6 server box also happens to be an IPv6 router for > the prefix in question, I don't think you should be trying to do > anything with RS/RA messages. I agree completely, I would rather not ever transmit an RA. But s

Re: [dhcwg] Cost of multicast [was Re: Brokenness of specs w.r.t. client behavior with M&O bits]

2008-10-28 Thread David W. Hankins
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:23:55AM +0900, hyunwook cha wrote: > What if DHCPv6 servers do not exist? AFAIK, in this thread, the cost > of unnecessary multicast DHCPv6 messages which may be prevented > through M&O bits are being discussed. That's a separate issue. Iljitsch is proposing that Multic