Le 2014-04-15 09:56, Philip Homburg a écrit :
>>> Right, to a certain extent that is true, of course; but not in the same
>>> drive-by fashion where a single packet can put everyone offline (if the
>>> option is not in the regular announcements).
>>
>> Sure it can. Just send them to a non-existing default gateway. Unless I
>> misunderstood your point.
> 
> Right now, on any network that doesn't do IPv6, sending RAs has marginal 
> effect. Certainly traffic within the site would be unaffected if there are
> no IPv6 addresses in DNS.
> 
> With an RA that kills IPv4, that changes dramatically. Sounds like something
> no sane OS vendor would enable by default.

You can do the same today with a rogue DHCPv4 server.

> From an OS perspective, I'd rather have this option in DHCPv4. That part
> of the code knows about IPv4. Getting the IPv6 stack to tell the
> IPv4 stack to shutdown is complicated

Please tell me how this is complicated:

$ grep "option no-ipv4" /var/db/dhclient6.leases.eth0 && pkill dhclient

For the systems I know, it would be trivial to implement. I could go and
submit a patch to NetworkManager today.

> and probably won't be implemented
> until enough people bitch about it (and how stupid the IETF was) for quite
> some time.

This is an argument that always comes back with any proposal. I totally
disagree with it. Anyone could code this up and submit a patch to
Android. Then when the next release happens, bam, lots of support overnight.

Simon
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