Re: Fwd: [homenet] HNCP, RA and DHCPv4
Roy Marples
Mon Jul 27 15:04:41 2015
Hi Juliusz
On 27/07/2015 14:59, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> Renumbering is not as smooth -- it appears to be impossible to
> remove a set of addresses wholesale, retracting a set of PIOs merely
> causes > the old addresses to become deprecated
You don't remove the address from the RA, you set it's valid and
preferred lifetimes to 0.
This has the effect of removing the address from the client.
> The situation with DHCPv4 is not as satisfactory. It is not possible to
> force the clients to either pick a different default router or to renew
> their lease (FORCERENEW is not useful).
Why is FORCERENEW not useful?
If you're thinking of authentication, there is
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6704 which dhcpcd supports to make this
much easier.
Roy
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