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RE: [dhcwg] Assigning DHCPv6 option codes

Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> Thu, 24 January 2002 00:00 UTC

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:55:32 -0700
From: Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com>
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Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Assigning DHCPv6 option codes
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> From: Richard Barr Hibbs <rbhibbs@pacbell.net>

> > I am unaware of a single example where site-specific options have
> > ever been used.
> >
> ... many "thin clients" such as Wyse used those option numbers for their
> configuration.  Of course, that is really "vendor-specific" and not
> "site-specific" but it still is the same number range (128-254).
> ...

I thought RFC 2132 clearly separated the site-specific range
[128,254] from the vendor-specific range defined in section 8.4.
Where is the overlap?


Vernon Schryver    vjs@rhyolite.com

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