On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 01:04:41PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 12 jun 2011, at 12:35, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > > Could you point to any RFC which implies or explicitly states that > > DHCPv6 MUST NOT be used in absence of RA with M and/or O=1? > > But what's the alternative? Always run DHCPv6 even if there are no router > advertisements or router advertisements with O=0, M=0?
That would seem to be the logical outcome, yes. > Like I said before, that would pollute the network with many multicasts > which can seriously degrade wifi performance. Regardless of it's potential downsides, the issue at hand was the RFC compliance of such a setup. Owen DeLong contended that: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 09:12:26PM -0700, Owen DeLong wrote: > As it currently stands, an RFC-compliant host will not attempt to solicit > a DHCP response unless it receives an RA with the M inclusive-or O bits > set. Daniel was merely requesting a reference for that assertion. If you have one, I'm sure Daniel (and Owen) would appreciate it. - Matt
