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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoleted by:

RFC 8415

Authors:

S. Venaas
T. Chown
B. Volz

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IETF

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dhc (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC4242

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Abstract

This document describes a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6(DHCPv6) option for specifying an upper boundfor how long a client should wait before refreshing informationretrieved from DHCPv6. It is used with stateless DHCPv6 as there areno addresses or other entities with lifetimes that can tell theclient when to contact the DHCPv6 server to refresh itsconfiguration. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.