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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation
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IPv6 Advanced Protocols Implementation

by Qing Li, Jinmei Tatuya, Keiichi Shima
July 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1008 pages
35h 43m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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300 Chapter 4—DHCPv6
message, encapsulates it in a Relay-forward message, and forwards it toward the servers. In
this case, the relay agent may send the message to the All_DHCP_Servers, or to the unicast
address of a particular server if it is configured with the address.
(*) This is one major difference from DHCPv4. For example, a DHCPREQUEST message of
DHCPv4 is often sent to the server’s unicast address. The reason for the difference probably
comes from the difference between broadcasting and multicasting. In DHCPv4, a client must
either broadcast or unicast a message on the link, and broadcasting is generally expensive.
In the design of DHCPv6,
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ISBN: 9780080489308