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Re: [dhcwg] WGLC for draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv4-over-dhcpv6-03 - Respond by Dec 9, 2013

<ian.farrer@telekom.de> Wed, 27 November 2013 15:10 UTC

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>
>- The client MUST always include both OPTION_DHCP4_O_DHCP6_ENABLE and
>OPTION_DHCP4_O_DHCP6_SERVER in the ORO.
>
>- The server responds with zero (if DHCPv4-over-DHCPv6 is not available)
>or one of two options. Never both.
>     - OPTION_DHCP4_O_DHCP6_ENABLE means "multicast".
>     - OPTION_DHCP4_O_DHCP6_SERVER means "unicast".

[ian] Agree - this seems cleaner than needing two options to provision
unicast.

>If this makes sense, then I would rename the options:
>s/ENABLE/MULTICAST/ and s/SERVER/UNICAST/. And maybe go further and kill
>OPTION_DHCP4_O_DHCP6_ENABLE, and just put the multicast address in the
>payload of OPTION_DHCP4_O_DHCP6_SERVER.

[ian] IIRC, putting the multicast address into the option was discussed in
the authoring process, but was rejected as being too error prone.

Cheers,
Ian

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