DHCPv6 Confirm in DOCSIS networks
Erik Kline
ek at google.com
Sat May 19 02:29:13 CEST 2012
> It's sent to the ff02::1:2 multicast address. I'm using ISC dhclient
> version 4.2.3-8.P2, the standard one included in Fedora 16. You can see
> the two connections in the PCAP @ http://fud.no/get-init.pcap. Frames
> 1-7 is the initial connection with no cached lease, 8-13 is after
> reseating the Ethernet cable betwen my laptop and the modem. I don't see
> anything wrong with the exchange, but maybe you have better eyes...
Please pardon my ignorance, but what's that second AdvertiseXID in
there? It has a different server identifier and assigns a different
address. The Confirms all seem to be for the address in the first
AdvertiseXID, not the 2nd.
Is this normal?
More information about the ipv6-ops
mailing list