Re: [MEXT] DSMIPv6 Dynamic Prefix Allocation/Home Address & Prefix Length

["Vijay Devarapalli" <vijay at wichorus.com>]

One possible simplification is to set the 'P' flag in both the request
and the reply whenever a prefix is requested/returned.

In case a single address is being sent, the "prefix-len" field would be
used to carry the network subnet length. The 'P' flag would be unset.

Comments?

Vijay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mext-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:mext-bounces at ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Sri Gundavelli
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 9:25 AM
> To: Hesham Soliman
> Cc: mext at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [MEXT] DSMIPv6 Dynamic Prefix Allocation/Home Address &
> Prefix Length
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Hesham Soliman wrote:
> 
> >> In the ACK option, if I request a home address(not a prefix), will
> it be
> >> set to '32' or will it be set to the subnet length of the network
> the
> >> home address belongs to?
> >
> > => It will be set to 32.
> >
> 
> Since, the (P) flag is there, to indicate if its a host address or
> a prefix, returning the actual prefix length will be useful, instead
> of returning 32, and HA has the prefix length.
> 
> Sri
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