Re: [dhcwg] WGLC: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-client-link-layer-addr-opt-01

["A. Gregory Rabil" <[e-mail]>]

Good point, Ted.  Maybe some text should be added to the draft to explain
that this is the expected configuration?

Greg

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:

>  On Aug 16, 2012, at 1:51 PM, perl-list wrote:
>
> Some of your other comments got me to thinking, however...  On DHCPv4, the
> client may start communicating directly with the DHCP server ignoring the
> relay agent for renews (no idea if it is supposed to do that, but some do).
>  Is this the case in DHCPv6?  Is it possible for the client to ignore the
> relay agent and communicate directly with the DHCPv6 server on rebind?  If
> so, then this solution will only sort of work...
>
>
> The client isn't allowed to do this unless it negotiates it with the
> server, which presumably would say no in any environment where the
> client-link-layer-address option was used.   This was a deliberate design
> decision in RFC3315, to deal with the exact problem you are talking about.
>
>