Re: IPv6 WG Last Call: <draft-ietf-ipv6-ra-flags-option-00.txt>

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Fri, 22 June 2007 12:43 UTC

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Sorry to be slightly late...

I note that 2461bis says that unrecognized options MUST
be ignored. So that means that back-level implementations
will ignore any flag bits sent with this new option. Does
that have any side-effects that should be noted?

     Brian

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