Re: [dhcwg] Anyone interested in continuing draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-pool-opt?

Le 22/08/2013 13:50, Sten Carlsen a écrit :
> I may easily be wrong here but snooping sounds to me like a stop gap
> solution i.e. what you do when no better method is available?
>
> Seen from outside (my chair) it looks like there might be a need for a
> protocol to talk directly with the switch/router, possibly first passing
> a control/admin system that controls what may be set up in various
> places in the network.

Sounds as if a combination of DHCP and another protocol be needed 
whenever DHCP PD is deployed in a DHCP Relay topology.

But something that describes the problem could indeed be written.

Alex

>
>
> On 22/08/13 12:55, Leaf Yeh wrote:
>> Ted - This is a completely different situation-DHCP relay agents _already_
>> snoop DHCP messages to set up routing between PE and CPE devices.
>>
>> I remember Ted has a discussion with WG-RTGWG on this topic in its session
>> of IETF84, and we had an additional discussion on the ML of
>> Routing-Discussion. Per these discussion records before and the personal
>> feedback from Adrian (RTG-AD), my conclusion (or impression) sounds that
>> 'use DHCPv6 to add & withdraw route on the PE router' will get rough
>> consensus (or will not irritate big controversy) in IETF.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Leaf
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org  [mailto:dhcwg-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
>> Ted Lemon
>> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 12:29 AM
>> To:<sarikaya@ieee.org>; Behcet Sarikaya
>> Cc:<dhcwg@ietf.org>
>> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Anyone interested in continuing
>> draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-prefix-pool-opt?
>>
>> On Aug 21, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Behcet Sarikaya<sarikaya2012@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Isn't it not good to use DHCP options to establish routes? Remember what
>> happened to
>>
>> It's not possible to get IETF consensus on a DHCP option to deliver routes
>> to clients.   I never said it was an inherently bad idea.   The reason I
>> asked MIF to stop working on it was that the endless floggings were getting
>> in the way of doing real work.   Really, preventing us from doing real work
>> at all.
>>
>> This is a completely different situation-DHCP relay agents _already_ snoop
>> DHCP messages to set up routing between PE and CPE devices.
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