Re: [dhcwg] Confusion on RFC 3011 subnet selection option

OK, one more question (or two,) and I'll stop bothering everyone.   ;^)
Does "requesting an address on behalf of another device" mean that it's
acting as a relay agent, or that it's doing something like obtaining the
leases for itself to put in it's available address pool to re-lease to
it's clients?  Basically, can a relay agent add this option when it
realizes that the address that would normally go into the giaddr field
cannot be routed to by the DHCP server?

-Matt Frick

Glenn Waters wrote:

> > This option is intended for use by a device that is requesting
> address
> > on behalf of another device. The word client in this case implies
> that
> > you already have an IP address (static or dynamic).
> >
> > This option is not intended to allocate an address on a specific
> > subnet on devices that are connected to multiple subnets. The
> correct
> > way to allocate an address on a specific subnet is to send the DHCP
> > request out on the subnet for which you wish to have an address
> > allocated.
> >
> > /gww

_______________________________________________
dhcwg mailing list
dhcwg@ietf.org
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dhcwg