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dhcpv6-ia: add some noise to the T1 and T2 periods #207

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Without this, all the clients get the same timeouts and try to renew addresses at the same time. Reduce the T1 & T2 by a pseudo random 0 to 127 seconds, thus the renew attempts are likely to be spread out a bit in time.

What do we think? Sensible? Stupid?

Without this, all the clients get the same timeouts and try to renew
addresses at the same time.  Reduce the T1 & T2 by a pseudo random 0 to
127 seconds, thus the renew attempts are likely to be spread out a bit
in time.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <[email protected]>
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Sensible - helps guard against update avalanches.

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