Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-stateful-issues-00

Ole Trøan <otroan@employees.org> Mon, 20 August 2012 09:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-stateful-issues-00
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Wes,

> Why MUST the client ignore an Advertise message with no bindings?
> What if stateful and stateless options are carried in the same message?
> Does this mean the stateless options will be ignored just because the
> stateful 
> Options failed?
> 
> In general, I think this draft addresses an important problem that needs
> to be 
> solved urgently.  We need to think through carefully the consequences of
> the proposed 
> solutions, however.

how much do you want the protocol to change? that's how a client behaves today.
a client could fall-back to "stateless" DHCP, if it couldn't find any servers that would reply to its request for an address. is that a change we want to make?

cheers,
Ole