Re: proxy relay agent

[Rajesh Saluja <[e-mail]>]

> What I was alluding to in the last mail was that if you want the
> dial-in client to use DHCP to obtain its IP address then there is a
> timing issue since IPCP may not be up by the time DHCP tries to get
> the address.  This is one of the reasons we use the proxy client
> method.  In the proxy client case the remote access server is doing
> the DHCP work and, as you say, passes the IP address back to the
> dial-in client using IPCP. 
I agree ...

> It's up to the dial-in client to know how
> to take that address and force it down into the IP stack, which is not
> necessarily that easy (and I don't know whow it's done, the client
> software folks handle that end).
How it is difficult? It will easily be done through IPCP negotiation.
In my opinion, during IPCP negotiation if the dial-in client does not have
any IP address, let our proxy-client request DHCP server to give an IP address 
and hand it over to the dial-in client. What is the special processing 
required on dial-in client side? 
	The only question that remains is whether the dial-in client's IPCP 
negotiation will wait until the proxy-client obtains the IP address from the 
DHCP server ( which can be even of the order of minutes).

> -- Jonathan

Best regards
Rajesh saluja