Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-client-link-layer-addr-opt-01

perl-list <perl-list@network1.net> Thu, 16 August 2012 18:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-client-link-layer-addr-opt-01
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----- Original Message -----

> From: "Ted Lemon" <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
> To: "perl-list" <perl-list@network1.net>
> Cc: "A. Gregory Rabil" <greg.rabil@jagornet.com>, "dhc WG"
> <dhcwg@ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:53:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] WGLC:
> draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-client-link-layer-addr-opt-01

> On Aug 16, 2012, at 1:51 PM, perl-list wrote:
> > Some of your other comments got me to thinking, however... On
> > DHCPv4,
> > the client may start communicating directly with the DHCP server
> > ignoring the relay agent for renews (no idea if it is supposed to
> > do
> > that, but some do). Is this the case in DHCPv6? Is it possible for
> > the client to ignore the relay agent and communicate directly with
> > the DHCPv6 server on rebind? If so, then this solution will only
> > sort of work...
> 
> The client isn't allowed to do this unless it negotiates it with the
> server, which presumably would say no in any environment where the
> client-link-layer-address option was used. This was a deliberate
> design decision in RFC3315, to deal with the exact problem you are
> talking about.

Thank you, designers, for that!! Very irritating in the DHCPv4 space.