A=1 L=0 PIO

Mikael Abrahamsson swmike at swm.pp.se
Tue Aug 16 11:49:33 CEST 2016


On Tue, 16 Aug 2016, Sander Steffann wrote:

> Hi Mikael,
>
>> 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.
>
> On an implementation level what I have seen on Linux is that the L flag determines whether the route 2001:db8::/64 -> eth0 is installed or not.

Ok, thanks everybody. So it'll still do A=1 style addressing (EUI64, 
privacy extension addressing etc)? Will it perform DAD?

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se


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