RE: Is Link-Local address mandatory for a host device?

2009-06-10 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
Erik Nordmark wrote: >I suspect that you also can't use DHCPv6 for non-addresses (finding the >DNS servers etc) since DHCPv6 might assume that some communication uses >the link-local address. But I haven't checked in the RFC. Snipped from RFC 3315, section 1.1 is: [Clients and servers exchange

Re: Is Link-Local address mandatory for a host device?

2009-06-10 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: For a end-device (a host), if the interface connecting to IPv6 network is configured with IPv6 global address, then automatic configuration of link-local address is mandatory for that interface? Consider the host is being statically configured with IP

RE: Is Link-Local address mandatory for a host device?

2009-06-10 Thread TJ
Possibly recalling incorrectly here, but I believe Vista can function sans Link Local addressing. (IIRC - It tries, but doesn't care too much if it fails (due to DAD collision, for example) ...) /TJ >-Original Message- >From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Beh

Re: Is Link-Local address mandatory for a host device?

2009-06-10 Thread Erik Nordmark
Prabhu Hariharan wrote: Hi, For a end-device (a host), if the interface connecting to IPv6 network is configured with IPv6 global address, then automatic configuration of link-local address is mandatory for that interface? Consider the host is being statically configured with IPv6 default ga

Re: Coming back to the IANA rules update for routing headers

2009-06-10 Thread Brian Haberman
Jari, As an individual contributor, I am happy with the rules specified in this draft and support adoption by the working group. I was also unable to find any other RFC or draft that specified the IANA rules for the routing header Type field. Regards, Brian Jari Arkko wrote: I spoke ab

Is Link-Local address mandatory for a host device?

2009-06-10 Thread Prabhu Hariharan
Hi, For a end-device (a host), if the interface connecting to IPv6 network is configured with IPv6 global address, then automatic configuration of link-local address is mandatory for that interface? Consider the host is being statically configured with IPv6 default gateway address. Without the p