Re: [dhcwg] RFC3315 DECLINE definition

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Thu, 09 February 2017 15:40 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RFC3315 DECLINE definition
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On Feb 9, 2017, at 10:38 AM, Mudric, Dusan (Dusan) <dmudric@avaya.com> wrote:
> 1.       When DHCPv6 client starts it sends SOLICIT with IA option (without or with IPv6 address). The server sends ADVERTISE message offering IPv6 address(es). If the server offers IPv6 address(es) that client cannot use (e.g. an address with wrong semantics, a multicast address, a reserved address, … , a second address and the client can support only one address), the client should be able to respond to the server indicating which address it cannot use.

Let me stop you here.   This is a server misconfiguration.   The server is not artificially intelligent, so the client can't usefully tell the server it is misconfigured.   If the server is configured to hand out addresses with the wrong semantics, the solution is to fix the server, not complicate the protocol with a way for the client to tell the server something it can't do anything about.   This also needlessly complicates the client.

So why do you think this is a useful thing to do?   What non-hypothetical problem are you trying to solve here?