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Re: [dhcwg] additional comments on dhcpv6-24

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Wed, 15 May 2002 20:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] additional comments on dhcpv6-24
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> Regarding (2), good question ... I would say it should. The logic might 
> simply be send a Solicit, wait IRT, check if any Advertises received ... 
> if so, go use them otherwise send Solicit again.

I think it makes more sense to say that if IRT has elapsed since the first 
Solicit was sent, the client just takes the first Advertise it gets.   This 
is how I implemented the ISC DHCPv4 client, and it seems to work pretty 
nicely.


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