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Re: [dhcwg]Commentsondraft-cadar-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-email-00.txt/draft-cadar-dhc-opt-imap-00.txt

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Thu, 10 March 2005 14:56 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com>
Subject: Re: [dhcwg]Commentsondraft-cadar-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-email-00.txt/draft-cadar-dhc-opt-imap-00.txt
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 08:52:52 -0600
To: Cristian Cadar <Cristian.Cadar@netlab.nec.de>
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On Mar 10, 2005, at 3:35 AM, Cristian Cadar wrote:
> I think most of the problems arise from the fact that there are
> not too many available Email applications which can be configured via
> the OS using the information given by the DHCP client. How frequently
> this option is used depends on the capabilities of the Email clients 
> to
> interact with the DHCP client. This situation might change in the
> future.

Then the future is when we should be considering adding an option.   I 
can't think of any valid application for getting a SMTP server's IP 
address from a DHCP server, V4 or V6.



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