Re: [v6ops] Please review the No IPv4 draft

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Tue, 15 April 2014 13:39 UTC

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Le 2014-04-15 04:36, Gert Doering a écrit :
> I agree to this.  Interestingly, this is something else than "just shutdown
> the dhcpv4 client if this option is detected" - it is "shutdown IPv4", which
> many OSes can't do today at all (and yes, that needs fixing).

Correct, it means "shutdown IPv4". Our draft lists precisely what needs
to be shut down. And you're correct in that implementing this could mean
more than just "pkill dhclient" on some OSes. But that work needs to
happen anyway.

Simon
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