Re: [dhcwg] How should a DHCPv6 server respond to retransmitted packets

> In the case of Information-request, the answer is (b) or (c),
> depending on the implementation

What about the other client messages, e.g. RENEW, etc? Is it safe to
apply (b) or (c) too?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Droms" <rdroms@cisco.com>
To: "Raymond Jayaraj" <raymondjayaraj@yahoo.com.sg>
Cc: <dhcwg@ietf.org>; <jraymond@icr.a-star.edu.sg>
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] How should a DHCPv6 server respond to retransmitted
packets

> In the case of Information-request, the answer is (b) or (c),
depending on
> the implementation.  The responses to retransmitted Informat-request
> messages are likely to be identical, so the use of a response cache
> shouldn't affect the results of the message exchange.
>
> - Ralph
>
> At 10:26 AM 10/25/2002 +0800, Raymond Jayaraj wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >How should a server respond to retransmitted packets
> >received after a
> >REPLY packet is sent, e.g.:
> >
> >DHC6CLIENT      DHC6SERVER      INFOSERVER
> >|               |               (e.g. LDAP)
> >|               |               |
> >|1)INFO-REQ     |               |
> >|>>>            |               |
> >|   >>>         |               |
> >|      >>>      |               |
> >|         >>>   |               |
> >|            >>>|2)processing/retrieve info
> >|3)INFO-REQ     |>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>|
> >|>>>            |<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<|
> >|   >>>      <<<|               |
> >|      >>><<<   |               |
> >|      <<<>>>   |               |
> >|   <<<      >>>|               |
> >|<<< 4)REPLY    |5)???          |
> >
> >What should (5) be? Should the server:
> >
> >a) drop (3) and subsequent duplicates (base on
> >transaction id).
> >
> >b) reprocess the request and retransmit the reply,
> >i.e. do (2)&(4)
> >    again.
> >
> >c) retransmit the reply, i.e. do (4) again.
> >
> >d) do any of the above (implementation specific).
> >
> >No indication for the above could be found in the
> >draft. I suspect
> >it should be a) or d), but it'd be nice to know for
> >sure.
> >
>
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