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Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 - how to proceed?

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Sun, 18 October 2009 21:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 - how to proceed?
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On Oct 18, 2009, at 1:46 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> I think that such an option highjacking won't happen with DHCPv6  
> again:
> Since we've got a "parameter option" in our draft already which can  
> be used
> to pass such configuration data to the bootloader/kernel, there is  
> no more
> need that they abuse extra DHCP options for this.

Okay.   The draft doesn't really say that.   I think it would be worth  
saying that specifically, so that people realize that that is one  
valid use for these options.   Otherwise we may find that people think  
these serve some other purpose--it certainly didn't occur to me that  
this was what bootfile parameters were for, although now that you  
mention it I see no reason why they wouldn't work for this.

So, assuming you make that clear in the draft, would you consider a  
draft that had just one bootfile-url option, and just one bootfile- 
parameters option to be useful?

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