[dhcwg] dhcpv6-24: sending Information-request via multicast

Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Wed, 08 May 2002 15:09 UTC

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Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 11:08:05 -0400
From: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Subject: [dhcwg] dhcpv6-24: sending Information-request via multicast
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>    If the client has an IPv6 address of sufficient scope, the
>    client MAY choose to send the Information-request message to the
>    All_DHCP_Servers multicast address.

This MAY leaves things very ambiguous. When should they do this? When
not?  It would be much better to have a clear algorithm the client
always follows. Otherwise, you'll get different implementations doing
different things, which is probably not good for interoperability.

Thomas

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