On Apr 18, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Erik Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > Make no mistake though, on some access networks what they need to see > is the client's RS, so it can get injected with Suresh's line id and > pass up to the BNG to craft the correct customer RA in response*. > Randomly doing DHCPv6 before even doing RS's is not guaranteed to get > you anything in these networks.
Right. ISTM that in some cases sending DHCPv6 messages before getting a response to an RS might be a minor speedup, because you can do both processes in parallel, but you aren't actually going to have connectivity until you get the RA anyway. And if the state machines aren't interdependent, you're going to see all sorts of bad behavior, which I am fairly sure the Microsoft implementation does not exhibit. So the fact that the Microsoft state machine has this small speed hack in it does not mean that the state machines are not interdependent. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
