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Re: [dhcwg] Regarding dhcpv4 client id

Venkataratnam Naidu <ratnameee@gmail.com> Tue, 06 October 2020 03:59 UTC

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Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:29:32 +0530
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Regarding dhcpv4 client id
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Hi Roy,

Thank you for the clarification.

Note sure whether all  server implementations are mandating it.  To make it
work with all servers,  is that better to add type 0

Regards,
Venkat.

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:09 PM Roy Marples <roy@marples.name> wrote:

> On 05/10/2020 06:53, Venkataratnam Naidu wrote:
> > 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 2132 section 9.14
>
> Identifiers SHOULD be treated as opaque objects by DHCP servers.
>
> The problem here is should. Servers *do* try to interpet the client id and
> some
> reject the DHCP outright if it cannot.
> The use of MUST would have been better here, but sadly that ship sailed
> years ago.
>
> RFC 8415 section 11 does improve this for DHCPv6, but sadly there are
> still
> servers out there that reject unknown DUID types because the word SHOULD
> is
> still there.
>
> Short answer - no it's not mandatory as per the RFC's but server
> implementations
> make it so.
>
> Roy
>

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