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Re: [dhcwg] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-failover-protocol-04: (with COMMENT)

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 02 February 2017 15:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-failover-protocol-04: (with COMMENT)
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Hi Kim,

On 02/02/17 15:28, kkinnear wrote:
> 	In the (now blessedly distant) past, we spent years working on
> 	the DHCPv4 failover protocol trying to shoehorn configuration
> 	information into the protocol, and it never worked.  DHCP
> 	servers need *lots* of configuration, and we have most
> 	consciously decided that synchronizing that configuration
> 	between failover partners is not the purpose of the DHCPv6
> 	failover protocol.

Thanks - that'd have helped me as a reader but if implementers
would know it for sure, then I guess it's fine as-is.

Thanks,
S.

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