A=1 L=0 PIO

Erik Kline ek at google.com
Tue Aug 16 09:25:08 CEST 2016


A host won't do on-link computation nor ND but instead send packets
for other destinations in the same /64 to a router, and rely on ICMPv6
Redirects to learn which destinations are actually on-link.

On 16 August 2016 at 16:11, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out what a "normal" currently deployed in the field
> IPv6 host would do if it receives an RA with PIO /64 where L=0 and A=1.
>
> I've skimmed RFC4861 and RFC4862 without finding an answer.
>
> Thoughts on this? I can of course try it out myself, but I have a limited
> number of operating systems available. Anyone here have any data or other
> insights?
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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