Re: WG ACTION: 1 week to discuss [LL40] IPv4 LL does not alter the behavior of the DHCPv4 state machine

"Philip Nye" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:52:11 -0000

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I am happy with the point but feel the proposed text is unwieldy.

How about:

"2.12 Interaction between DHCPv4 client and IPv4ll state machines

A device that implements both IPv4ll and a DHCPv4 client should not alter the behavior of the DHCPv4 client to accommodate IPv4 Link-Local configuration. In particular configuration of an IPv4 Link-Local address, whether or not a DHCP server is currently responding, is not sufficient reason to unconfigure a valid DHCP lease, to stop the DHCP client from attempting to acquire a new IP address, to change DHCP timeouts or to change the behaviour of the DHCP state machine in any other way.

Note that this has not been observed in some early implementations of IPv4 Link-Local configuration."


Philip