Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-mboned-ieee802-mcast-problems-03.txt
Mikael Abrahamsson <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:29:12 +0200 (CEST)
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.mboned |
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| Organization | People's Front Against WWW |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
There is a very heated debate in 6man regarding https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-ipv6only-flag-03 One of the use-cases is that turning off the IPv4 stack in a device will stop it from emitting IPv4 service discovery traffic, DHCPv4 server solicitation etc, which are typically broadcast or multicast. Can someone who knows a lot more about wifi please comment on whether this is a real problem on wifi deployments and actually affects battery powered devices, or if this is just a suboptimization? Would large wifi deployments benefit from hosts turning off their IPv4 stacks if the wifi is IPv6 only, instead of the hosts running their IPv4 stacks in IPv4 link-local mode and still emitting service discovery packets and trying to configure their IPv4 stack with DHCP (which is typically default)? -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected] _______________________________________________ MBONED mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mboned