Subject: Re: [v6ops] When an RG should issue a DHCPv6 solicit

From: "Brzozowski, John" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:10 +0000

Much less of course depending on renew/rebind timers.

The knobs required to allow for a controlled introduction are still missing which should be addressed.

John
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From: Erik Kline
Sent: Thu, Aug 25, 2011 11:20 AM
To: "Brzozowski, John"
CC:Ted Lemon ,IPv6 Operations
Subject: Re: [v6ops] When an RG should issue a DHCPv6 solicit
On 25 August 2011 22:53, Brzozowski, John
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> I understand, however as enablement progresses more devices that are IPv6
> enabled continue to transmit requests.  This multiplied by the fact that
> these devices systematically attempt to reinitialize DHCPv6 every "n"
> minutes generates a lot of traffic.  Even with the exponential back off
> between SOLICITs.
>
> Consider the following:
>
> * every "n" minutes
> * a series of DHCPv6 SOLICITs are sent exponentially backing off between
> each
>
> The more devices doing this generates lots of traffic.  If M and O were in
> place to influence the behavior the same could be set to influence the
> behavior of the clients.  Further, if the rate or frequency of RAs with M
> and/or O set to 1 further altered the rate of DHCPv6 requests there could
> be added benefit.

<snarky>
And how much traffic is generated if you just answer these requests?  ;-)
</snarky>