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Re: [v6ops] IPv6-Only Preferred DHCPv4 option

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Wed, 04 December 2019 20:44 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 12:44:52 -0800
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] IPv6-Only Preferred DHCPv4 option
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On Dec 4, 2019, at 12:43 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> wrote:
> approach is better than the other way around :-)

Because once the device knows it’s on an IPv6-only network, it doesn’t have to keep trying to get an IPv4 lease, and we don’t have to deal with the problem of it getting a lease before it gets an answer from DHCPv6 or RA and then having running connections that would be killed.

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