RFC7084

[Wuyts Carl <[e-mail]>]

All,

Not sure I should sent this one to DHCPv6 WG or the global IETF v6, so feel free to forward it if needed.

Last week, RFC7084 got posted.  I did already post a message on a rather badly phrased req (a SHOULD one regarding "long-enough", but bumped into the next one today (this one being a lot worse!!).

""
WAA-6:   If the IPv6 CE router receives a Router Advertisement
            message (described in [RFC4861]) with the M flag set to 1,
            the IPv6 CE router MUST do DHCPv6 address assignment
            (request an IA_NA option).
""
I'm not sure who came up with this one, but this is really a no-go.
So, according to this req, the DHCPv6 client must request an ia_na option if an M=1 is being received on his link ???  I might have understood it all wrong, but as far as I know, M=1 is not linked directly to ia_na, ia_pd is enough on its own, no ??  So, the CPE is expected to change its DHCPv6 client configuration based upon receiving an RA with this M=1 content ?
Extract from RFC4861:
""
M              1-bit "Managed address configuration" flag.  When
                     set, it indicates that addresses are available via
                     Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

""


I'm very curious on the replies now, but this seems really be going the wrong way.  You can launch a CPE which either listen to RA or not, and bound accordingly, however, listen + bind + force ia_na looks a bit too much to me.

regs
Carl Wuyts
GCD System Architect Networking
CONNECT DIVISION

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