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Re: [dhcwg] What sorts of services does DHCP configure?

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 15 October 2013 22:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] What sorts of services does DHCP configure?
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On Oct 15, 2013, at 6:24 PM, Sten Carlsen <stenc@s-carlsen.dk> wrote:
> No, I don't think DHCP was involved and it did not work as painless as it should have. I was thinking that DHCP might provide an address to a portal or such that might do the actual work. A bit like the "next server" for TFTP.

Okay, so just to be clear here, I'm not looking for new applications for DHCP.   I'm asking people to tell me if they disagree with my theory that services of this type (a) can't be generally configured by DHCP and (b) aren't typically configured by DHCP at the present time.   Yes, of course you can cobble together some hack using DHCP.

The question is (a) is it _ever_ a good idea, (b) is it safe to enable this behavior by default on all nodes, and (c) if it's not safe, is the behavior in any sense useful?

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