RA & DHCP problem...

Tarko Tikan tarko at lanparty.ee
Mon Dec 30 12:57:17 CET 2013


hey,

> In other words: create undefined behaviour that breaks in new and exciting
> ways for every operating system (version) around.

No, it's not really different from having unexpired RAs around or 
manually adding two IPs to an interface. These situations already happen 
and operating systems deal with them.

> Thus creating a situation where instead of DHCP "and" RA, you get an
> "exclusive or" to preserve your sanity. You might as well declare RA
> deprecated directly.

There is no need to deprecate RA at all. It is good for many usecases 
but not for IA_PD unfortunately.

-- 
tarko


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