> I have not found any information in the ND RFC's nor DHCPv6 RFC that say > a node can initiate DHCPv6 if node doesn't receive any RA. I need to see > explicit text in some document to accept what you said below.
Is there a MUST NOT somewhere that I am missing? Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hemant > > -----Original Message----- > From: Templin, Fred L [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 10:00 AM > To: Hemant Singh (shemant); Iljitsch van Beijnum > Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; JINMEI Tatuya / ???? > Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Re: prefix length determination for DHCPv6 > > > How can that happen with a DHCPv6 host? RA will always > precede DHCPv6 > > transactions because unless the host sees an RA with M bit set the > host > > will not initiate DHCPv6. > > That doesn't make much sense; if a node doesn't hear RAs, why wouldn't > it try DHCPv6 before giving up? > > Fred > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
