RE: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Manfredi, Albert E
address used when M or O bit is set On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 16:12 +0200, Fernando Gont wrote: > I'm curious about why the corresponding text was removed. In particular > when at the time (2007) the DNS options was not yet widely implemented, > and hence you *needed* DHCPv6 to learn th

Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Karl Auer
On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 16:12 +0200, Fernando Gont wrote: > I'm curious about why the corresponding text was removed. In particular > when at the time (2007) the DNS options was not yet widely implemented, > and hence you *needed* DHCPv6 to learn the addresses of recursive DNS > servers dynamically.

Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉
At Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:38:45 +0200, Dominik Elsbroek wrote: > > What's removed is the corresponding text, not the bits. See page 19 of > > RFC 4861: the bits are still there. > > In RFC4862, Appendix C there is one point: > > Removed the text regarding the M and O flags, considering the >

Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Jeremy, The DHCPv6 client on a host will use its link-local address as the source address and ff02::1:2 as the destination address. Cheers Suresh On 04/04/2012 10:50 AM, Duncan, Jeremy wrote: > ---I am still very curious which address a client should use, if the O or > M flag is set, to find

Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Bob Hinden
Dominik, The M and O flags are defined in RFC4861. They are not removed (or deprecated). Bob On Apr 4, 2012, at 6:55 AM, Dominik Elsbroek wrote: > Hi all, > > the discussion on the mailing list titled "RA "requires" DHCPv6 ?" is > quite confusingto me since RFC 4862 states, the flags M and O

RE: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Duncan, Jeremy
---I am still very curious which address a client should use, if the O or M flag is set, to find a DHCPv6 server. The server listens on ff02::1:2 and/or ff02::1:3 0101001101100101011011010111011001010111001000100100011001101001 Jeremy Duncan Senior Director, IPv6 Network Architect Sal

Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Dominik Elsbroek
Hi Fernando, > What's removed is the corresponding text, not the bits. See page 19 of > RFC 4861: the bits are still there. > In RFC4862, Appendix C there is one point: Removed the text regarding the M and O flags, considering the maturity of implementations and operational experiences.

Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

2012-04-04 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Dominik, On 04/04/2012 03:55 PM, Dominik Elsbroek wrote: > the discussion on the mailing list titled "RA "requires" DHCPv6 ?" is > quite confusingto me since RFC 4862 states, the flags M and O are > removed, but not deprecated. What's removed is the corresponding text, not the bits. See page