12 Jun
2011
12 Jun
'11
9:29 p.m.
In a message written on Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 08:12:02PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
The IPv4 host does this once and gets its lease. If there is no DHCPv6 server then DHCPv6 clients would keep broadcasting forever. Not a good thing.
DHCP today uses an exponential backoff if there is no response, I don't see why that can't be kept in IPv6. Plus I wonder how long users would keep on machines that get no useable network connectivity. I really think the number of broadcast packets is a total non-issue. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/