[dhcwg] Regarding dhcpv4 client id

[Venkataratnam Naidu <[e-mail]>]

Hi Experts,

I have a question on dhcpv4 client id that client sends in dhcp
discover/request msg.

when the client id is other than hardware address, is that mandatory to
encode "type 0" in client-identifier.
if client doesn't encode type 0, does this work in all dhcp server
implementations.


>From RFC:
   The client identifier MAY consist of type-value pairs similar to the
   'htype'/'chaddr' fields defined in [3]. For instance, it MAY consist
   of a hardware type and hardware address. In this case the type field
   SHOULD be one of the ARP hardware types defined in STD2 [22].  A
   hardware type of 0 (zero) should be used when the value field
   contains an identifier other than a hardware address (e.g. a fully
   qualified domain name).

Regards,
Venkat.