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RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt

2006-12-04 06:36:25
 



-----Original Message-----
From: Soliman, Hesham [mailto:hsoliman(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wed 11/22/2006 4:51 AM
To: Scott W Brim; General Area Review Team; Jari Arkko; Mark Townsley
(townsley); Bob Hinden; Brian Haberman; Thomas Narten; Erik Nordmark;
William Allen Simpson; ipv6(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: RE: gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-09.txt


4.2 router advertisement

  - "Note: If neither M nor O flags are set this indicates that no
    information is available via DHCPv6."

    This means that the responding router always knows if DHCPv6 is
    definitely available or definitely not available.  Is there any
    possibility that the responding router might not know? 

=> I don't think so. It should always know.

It's a network config and admin issue.  The router doesn't "learn" or "know"
if DHCPv6 is available; rather, the router is explicitly configured by the
network admin to advertise the availability of DHCPv6 to hosts.  Presumably,
the netowkr admin knows whether DHCPv6 is available and configures the
router appropriately.

=> Sure, that's why the end result is that the router knows whether DHCPv6
is available or not.

Hesham

 

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