WG ACTION: ACCEPT [LL40] IPv4 LL does not alter the behavior of the DHCPv4 state machine
Erik Guttman <[email protected]> Mon, 05 Jan 2004 20:27:53 +0100
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Accepting this issue has the following implications: ---------- Add this new section: 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. Several early implementations of IPv4 link-local have modified the DHCP state machine in an attempt to make IPv4 link-local more reliable, and the field experience we have gained from this has shown that it does not work - reliability of DHCP service is significantly reduced. If increased reliability of IPv4 link-local is desired, we recommend that the IPv4 link-local state machine track the DHCP client state machine and, in cases where it is not certain that the DHCP-assigned address is correct, the IPv4ll state machine acquire an IPv4ll address without causing the DHCP state machine to relinquish its address. Further discussion of this issue is provided in [DNAv4]. ---------- Add a reference to DNAv4 ---------- Please see: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/zeroconf/msg00004.html And: http://www.drizzle.org/~aboba/ZEROCONF/ll40.html Regards, Erik