dhcpcd-discuss

Re: IPv6 reconfigure_accept

Shahid Mahmood

Thu Mar 16 13:48:41 2017

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Roy Marples <roy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Shahid
>
> On 15/03/17 14:12, Shahid Mahmood wrote:
> > How can one configure *not* to reconfigure_accept?
> > ie the client indicates that it cannot accept reconfiguration from the
> > server.
>
> Currently, you cannot.
>
Thanks for the clarification.


> Why would you want to configure it anyway?

We are seeing a situation where upon a RENEW, the server sends a different
IP address than requested.


> You'll get the new config
> eventually (when T1 expires or the carrier goes down/up), reconfigure
> accept just gets you it faster when pushed from the server.
> Because the protocol requires a nonce, it's pretty secure.
>
> Roy
>

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