Re: Fwd: [homenet] HNCP, RA and DHCPv4
Juliusz Chroboczek
Mon Jul 27 15:13:51 2015
>> 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.
Hmm, that's not what I've seen. I'm probably doing something wrong, I'll
check my code.
>> 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?
Needs authentication.
> If you're thinking of authentication, there is
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6704 which dhcpcd supports to make this
> much easier.
Thanks, I'll have a look.
-- Juliusz
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