Re: [Roll] DAO-Projection and new MOPs

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Wed, 19 December 2018 23:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] DAO-Projection and new MOPs
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Rahul Arvind Jadhav <rahul.jadhav@huawei.com> wrote:
    > Actually this (new ICMP code) would have worked very nicely but as you
    > mentioned the legacy nodes won't send back any response for unknown
    > codes.

    > I checked whether 6550 has an explicit statement and it does.

    > Section 6: "If a node receives a RPL control message with an unknown
    > Code field, the node MUST discard the message without any further
    > processing, MAY raise a management alert, and MUST NOT send any
    > messages in response."

maybe this deserves an update as well then :-)