On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 06:19:34AM +0100, Erik Nordmark wrote: > Two issues with multiple methods to configure the same thing that > hasn't been brought up are: > - potential impact on time to discover > Since each router advertisement doesn't need to contain all > options will a host need to listen for RAs for some time > before it decides it to DHCPv6 to find the info? > - conflicting information > A host might use DHCPv6 for other reasons/other information. > What should it do if the RAs and the DHCPv6 reply contains > different DNS information? > What if different RAs received on the same interface contain > different DNS information?
I this problem also might arise for dual-stack host using DHCP. Should it query DHCPv6 and/or DHCP? Should it fall back to one if the other fails? Stig -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
