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Re: RA "requires" DHCPv6 ?

Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au> Sat, 31 March 2012 13:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: RA "requires" DHCPv6 ?
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
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On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 14:10 +0200, Fernando Gont wrote:
> > Anyway, I've been working on the basis that the M and O flags are
> > advisory and not prescriptive. That is, they do not *require* the
> > host to do anything.
> 
> Exactly: They do not REQUIRE you to do DHCPv6. You MAY want  not to do
> it, and just not use the Internet for the day.

Or you could use one's statically assigned address. Or you could make
addresses using other available prefixes, from the same or other
routers.

Regards, K.

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