On 17-aug-2007, at 18:41, James Woodyatt wrote:
One wonders why they would bother waiting in the first place given the significant probability that DHCP service is deployed without any RA whatsoever.
So, it seems natural to ask... what good is the M bit anyway?
To stop unnecessary DHCP traffic. Please don't make implementations do DHCP by default even without an M or O bit, as I've said before, multicast traffic uses up inordinate amounts of bandwidth on wifi links and it's even worse if there are no DHCPv6 servers (which is the case in 99.99% of all deployments today) so the requests will be retransmitted.
-------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
