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Re: revisit protocol constants ??

Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 22 January 2014 19:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: revisit protocol constants ??
From: Ralph Droms <rdroms.ietf@gmail.com>
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On Jan 22, 2014, at 10:55 AM 1/22/14, Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> wrote:

>> [...]
> 
> For this, I was partly also thinking about DHCPv6 where the original
> spec called for the client  giving up after a certain number of
> tries. That saves bandwidth, but it also means that if a client can't
> find a DHC server, at some point it quits trying and won't ever try
> again. And if the machine stays up and running for  several
> weeks... (I'm not sure this ever even got fixed....)

It's fixed.  Based on sections 14 and 17.1.2, "the client continues to transmit the message until it receives a response" (in this specific case, a SOLICIT message).

This behavior (the interval between transmissions of the SOLICIT message) was modified with the recent publication of RFC 7083.

- Ralph

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> Thomas
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