Re: [dhcwg] DHCPv6 Reply Message

Hi Tim,

My reading is the DHCPv6 client must continue to transmit Renew messages
until receiving an Reply message containing the IA_Addr option that needs
to be renewed as it's not supposed to be updated on the client.

Retransmitting with the same transaction id seems to be correct behavior.

~Tim

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 2:00 PM Timothy Carlin <tjcarlin@iol.unh.edu> wrote:

> Hi dhcwg,
>
> A question has come up regarding how to handle the situation where a
> DHCPv6 Client receives a Reply to a Renew Message.
>
> For a Renew transaction, how should a client process a Reply message that
> contains a valid IA_NA, but does not contain any IA Address option?  The
> Reply message is otherwise valid and complete.
>
> RFC 3315 says this:
>
>    If the Reply was received in response to a Solicit (with a Rapid
>>    Commit option), Request, Renew or Rebind message, the client updates
>>    the information it has recorded about IAs from the IA options
>>    contained in the Reply message:
>> ...
>>    -  Leave unchanged any information about addresses the client has
>>       recorded in the IA but that were not included in the IA from the
>>       server.
>
>
> RFC 8415 updated the word addresses, and instead uses "leases":
>
>    -  Leave unchanged any information about leases the client has
>>       recorded in the IA but that were not included in the IA from the
>>       server.
>
>
> Should the client continue the same Renew transaction (same transaction
> id) and retransmit as the IA Address Option was not included, or process
> the Reply, update T1/T2 and start a new Renew transaction (new transaction
> id) at T1?
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Carlin
> UNH-IOL
>
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