Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD
Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sat, 31 October 2015 18:59 UTC
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD
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On 31/10/2015 21:46, Tore Anderson wrote: > * Brian E Carpenter > >> On 31/10/2015 04:24, Sander Steffann wrote: >> >>> I always understood this bit from RFC 3633 to mean that any host >>> configuration flags (such as M/O) are not relevant to DHCPv6-PD: >>> "Note that this use of DHCP is not bound to the assignment of IP >>> addresses or other configuration information to hosts". >> >> The phrase "is not bound to" is rather unclear, don't you think? It >> neither says nor implies that routers are thereby exempt from issuing >> correct RAs. > > Agreed. > > Also, note that RFC 3633 did *not* update RFCs 2461/2462, which at the > time defined the meaning of the O/M flags to be essentially the same as > what RFC 4861 defines them to be today. > >> Even if you accept that, in the case that you *don't* know that such >> information is available, you physically cannot set the M or O flag. >> So in the real world, a node that is interested in IA_PD had better >> go fishing for it, whatever the MO bits say. So I retract all the if >> statements in the pseudocode that I sent. The only robust >> implementation is one that always looks for DHCPv6 information. > > That might indeed be the case - but it's not what the standards are > currently telling the implementers to do. Furthermore, accepting this > would mean that the M/O flags are essentially pointless. In that case, > deprecating the flags would be the logical thing to do. I know. It's a bit depressing. > (You explicitly called out IA_PD, but as your argument applies equally > well to any other DHCPv6 option I'm going to assume you meant IA_PD > just as an example.) Yes, although it's the example that led to this thread. Brian
- [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-… Fred Baker (fred)
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Victor Kuarsingh
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Victor Kuarsingh
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Victor Kuarsingh
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… otroan
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Hemant Singh (shemant)
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… 神明達哉
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… 神明達哉
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… 神明達哉
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Fernando Gont
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Tore Anderson
- [v6ops] Adding links [was: draft-jjmb...] otroan
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering (was: Fwd: I-… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Fernando Gont
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering (was: Fwd: I-… Mark Smith
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Mark Smith
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… 神明達哉
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Mark Smith
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering (was: Fwd: I-… Hemant Singh (shemant)
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Nick Hilliard
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering (was: Fwd: I-… Lorenzo Colitti
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering (was: Fwd: I-… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering (was: Fwd: I-… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… 神明達哉
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… otroan
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering - addressing … Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering - addressing … Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Alexandre Petrescu
- Re: [v6ops] how /63 helps tethering - addressing … Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Brzozowski, John
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… otroan
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Templin, Fred L
- [v6ops] M/O flags and PD otroan
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… otroan
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Mark Smith
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] Fwd: I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-uni… Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Gert Doering
- Re: [v6ops] I-D Action: draft-jjmb-v6ops-unique-i… Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Templin, Fred L
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Sander Steffann
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Mark Andrews
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Tore Anderson
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [v6ops] M/O flags and PD STARK, BARBARA H