Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05
Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Tue, 06 October 2009 19:40 UTC
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Comments: In-reply-to Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> message dated "Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:31:23 -0700."
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:41:36 -0400
From: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
Cc: DHC-WG WG <dhcwg@ietf.org>, Damien Neil <Damien.Neil@nominum.com>
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05
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Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> writes: > Nope, I'm still not getting it. How is it more complicated than > unpacking the data out of an individual option? Don't you have to > go through the entire packet to find that individual option? You > already have code that knows how to unpack options, so it seems like > it's actually more general to encapsulate the data in options than > to define an option format that has to be parsed specially. The issue that I see is that a simple implementation might want to process DHCP options one at a time in order. Find first option, process, discard. Go to next option, repeat. The way the netboot options are defined, you can't do that. Before you process the BOOTFILE_URL option, you have to scan the entire rest of the DHCP message to find the corresponding BOOTFILE_PARAM option. (And more specifically, the one with the same precedence key.) That seems like gratuitous complexity, if we can avoid it. Hence, I was suggesting that one possible way to decide whether to encode stuff in one option vs. multiple instances (with different data in it) would be the following. if an implementation could just process them one at at time without having to find them all before processing, encoding them as multiple options is fine. But if you needed to have all the instances of that option together, before being able to process one of them, perhaps then it would be better to just encode all the data in one option so its all in one place. That way the client doesn't have to hunt around for it. Thomas
- [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-net… Damien Neil
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Narten
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Narten
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Narten
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Damien Neil
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Stephen Jacob
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Alfred Hönes
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Bud Millwood
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Jarrod Johnson
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Jarrod Johnson
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Jarrod Johnson
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Jarrod Johnson
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Bud Millwood
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Jarrod Johnson
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Jarrod Johnson
- Re: [dhcwg] Comments on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt… Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Niall.oReilly+lists
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Chuck Anderson
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … H. Peter Anvin
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Niall.oReilly+lists
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Narten
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … jarrod.b.johnson@gmail.com
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Woundy, Richard
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Narten
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Woundy, Richard
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Thomas Narten
- Re: [dhcwg] netboot load balancing (was: draft-ie… Thomas Huth
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … Ted Lemon
- Re: [dhcwg] draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-netboot-05 … H. Peter Anvin