Re: RFC 3315 17.1.3. Receipt of Advertise Messages
Roy Marples
Fri Feb 17 17:24:25 2017
Hi
On 17/02/17 15:39, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
> Hi Roy,
> Can you clarify this please. Need to document the behavior in case of
> multiple IPv6 Advertisements received within 1s.
>
> True or false:
> - dhcpcd picks the very first Advertisement, ignoring any other
If the Advertisement is accepted for existing criteria, true.
> - dhcpcd does not implement RFC sec 17.1.3 bullet one as mentioned above.
True
> - dhccpd still complies to all *must* RFC requirements.
True
> Also please point out if it is documented somewhere.
This isn't documented anywhere explicitly.
I'm actually unaware of any other open-source client that behaves
differently to dhcpcd in this regard either and last I checked (could be
wrong), they don't explicitly document it either.
Roy
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