Re: [dhcwg] DHCPv4 INFORM Refresh Time Option

"Gaurav Halwasia (ghalwasi)" <ghalwasi@cisco.com> Mon, 10 September 2012 03:53 UTC

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From: "Gaurav Halwasia (ghalwasi)" <ghalwasi@cisco.com>
To: Andre Kostur <akostur@incognito.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] DHCPv4 INFORM Refresh Time Option
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Hi Andre,

> As another option, did you consider using Lease Time/T1/T2 instead of having a completely new option for this?

[Gaurav] This is on the lines of DHCPv6. DHCPv6 also has information refresh time option. Moreover, Lease Time/T1/T2 does not make much sense in case of INFORM and anyway standard also does not allow this.

Thanks,
Gaurav
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From: Andre Kostur [mailto:akostur@incognito.com] 
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To: Gaurav Halwasia (ghalwasi)
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] DHCPv4 INFORM Refresh Time Option

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Gaurav Halwasia (ghalwasi) <ghalwasi@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> Appreciate your comments and suggestions.   We are also looking to have the WG take this on as a work item.
>
>>Do we have any reasonable expectation that any clients will implement this feature?
> [Gaurav] Yes, I think so. Certainly not going to get implemented by most. Moreover, DHCP INFORM apart from being used by literal end host devices, also gets used in a lot of other deployments/scenarios. One of the vendor uses it for network discovery. In one another use-case, local dhcp servers on Hubs (in Hub and Spoke) kind of deployments needs to periodically refresh the local config parameters from the central server which it can use while replying to dhcp requests on it's LAN.


As another option, did you consider using Lease Time/T1/T2 instead of having a completely new option for this?

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Andre Kostur