Mitigating the effects of SLAAC renumbering events (draft-ietf-6man-slaac-renum)

Fernando Gont fgont at si6networks.com
Wed Aug 31 13:12:29 UTC 2022


Hi,

On 31/8/22 09:43, Vasilenko Eduard wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The router could split information between RAs (and send it at
> different intervals). It may be difficult to guess what is stale and
> what is just "not in this RA".

You ask the router, and the router responds.

If you want to consider the case where the router intentionally splits 
the options into multiple packets (which does not exist in practice), 
AND the link is super lossy, you just increase the number of 
retransmissions.

There's no guessing.

Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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