Re: [dhcwg] "client identifier" in server replies

On Tuesday 08 July 2003 14:28, Thamer Al-Harbash wrote:
> We already have the DHCP Hostname option. Clients can be
> configured to pass this option when the admnistrator expects high
> xid collisions.

This isn't a standard use of the DHCP host-name option, and not all DHCP 
clients support it.

>  The DHCP server can also be configured to assign
> leases per the DHCP Hostname option.

A DHCP server that uses the host-name option as an identifier is out of spec 
with the standard.   Furthermore, since host-name option values aren't 
guaranteed to be unique, this is a very risky proposition even with clients 
that _do_ support this non-standard use of the host-name option.

> We just need to promote the
> use of the DHCP Hostname option to be used to counter this
> problem.

This doesn't solve the problem anyway.   The only difference here is that 
we're now using the host-name option as if it were a client-identifier 
option.   So we have the same problem, but with a different option.

> Is this too kludgy?

It's not so much that as that I think it won't work.   :'/

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