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Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set

Suresh Krishnan <suresh.krishnan@ericsson.com> Wed, 04 April 2012 15:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: DHCPv6 address used when M or O bit is set
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Hi Jeremy,
  The DHCPv6 client on a host will use its link-local address as the
source address and ff02::1:2 as the destination address.

Cheers
Suresh

On 04/04/2012 10:50 AM, Duncan, Jeremy wrote:
> ---I am still very curious which address a client should use, if the O or
> M flag is set, to find a DHCPv6 server.
> 
> 
> The server listens on ff02::1:2 and/or ff02::1:3
> 
> 
> 
> 010100110110010101101101011100000110010101110010001000000100011001101001
> 
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