Simon Perreault <[email protected]> writes:

> Sure it can. Just send them to a non-existing default gateway. Unless
> I misunderstood your point.

My point was that if you do this, the next time the real gateway sends
out an advertisement, connections are going to be restored. Whereas if
the gateway doesn't "speak" this option, all the hosts are just going to
shut down IPv4 and not come back up until someone realises this is what
happened.

>> Would it not be reasonable to add in a requirement that if a client has
>> already received a DHCPv4 lease (or more generally, has been configured
>> for IPv4 in some way), it will ignore requests to turn off the stack?
>
> I'd be fine with that. Thanks for the idea!

Cool! :)

-Toke

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