Re: RFC4 4861 and unicast router solicitations

2009-06-29 Thread Aleksi Suhonen
Hemant Singh (shemant) wrote: An RS with a unicast destination is legal as per RFC 4861. For example, first time when a host was initialized, the host sent an RS with mcast destination. Then the host received an RA and the host acquired IPv6 address(es) and is up and running. After a while the

RE: RFC4 4861 and unicast router solicitations

2009-06-23 Thread Dmitry Anipko
Thanks Hesham, Hemant and Suresh for your responses. It seems from them that the implied intent was that unicast-destined RSes should be allowed to be both sent and received and should be handled equally with multicast-destined ones. If that is the case, shall the RFC text be amended to reflect

Re: RFC4 4861 and unicast router solicitations

2009-06-23 Thread Suresh Krishnan
Hi Dmitry, On 09-06-22 09:51 PM, Dmitry Anipko wrote: Hello, I have a question on whether router solicitations with unicast destination addresses are valid under RFC 4861, and if they are, whether they shall be handled by routers equally to the solicitations with multicast destination addres

RE: RFC4 4861 and unicast router solicitations

2009-06-23 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
Dmitry, An RS with a unicast destination is legal as per RFC 4861. For example, first time when a host was initialized, the host sent an RS with mcast destination. Then the host received an RA and the host acquired IPv6 address(es) and is up and running. After a while the host detaches from the