[Dibbler] Address Autoconfiguration based upon Router Advertisement

Lalit Mishra lalit.mishra at airtightnetworks.com
Tue Sep 9 10:27:42 CEST 2008


Hello,

RFC 2462 5.2 states that hosts should maintain variables ManagedFlag 
and  OtherConfigFlag on per interface basis. These flags describe the 
behavior of the host for stateful autoconfiguration mechanism.
Accordingly if router advertisement on a link has ManagedFlag set  and 
the host is not already running the stateful address autoconfiguration 
protocol, the host should invoke the stateful address autoconfiguration 
protocol, requesting both address information and other information. 
(section 5.5.3).

Is this behavior observed for dibbler 0.7.2 and linux kernel 2.6.13? 
When I run dibbler-client the machine acquires an address from the 
server running on the same link even if the router advertisement has 
ManagedFlag set. Is there some configuration changes required to make 
this work according to RFC?

Thanks,
Lalit.



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