HIPL generates UPDATE without setting preferred bit

Bug #790489 reported by Miika Komu
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
HIPL
Confirmed
Medium
René Hummen

Bug Description

Jeff Ahrenholz suggested that we should set the preferred bit in UPDATE. Please see the discussion thread:

http://www.freelists.org/post/hipl-dev/interop-with-OpenHIP-failing-due-to-UPDATE-packets

Revision history for this message
Miika Komu (miika-iki) wrote :

Some cristicism against the preferred bit in section III.B:

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/gurtov/papers/softcom09.pdf

It should be noted that the preferred bit stuff is in RFC5206. Hence, we should simply conform to it (and perhaps try to pass the change to RFC5206-bis).

Changed in hipl:
assignee: nobody → René Hummen (rene-hummen)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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