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Re: [dhcwg] extending the DHCPv4 option space, VSO usage -- was: Re: issues with draft-grochla-80211-dhcp-option-00

"Glen Zorn" <gwz@net-zen.net> Fri, 24 September 2010 01:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] extending the DHCPv4 option space, VSO usage -- was: Re: issues with draft-grochla-80211-dhcp-option-00
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Ted Lemon [mailto://Ted.Lemon@nominum.com] writes:

...
> ...I still think that this sort of option isn't what vendor options are
for--
> my understanding of vendor options is that they're for vendors--e.g.,
> Cisco, not IEEE.

Maybe.  However, that makes the DHCP usage of the vendor-specific construct
considerably more limited than other IETF protocols (e.g. RADIUS & Diameter
(in which even the IETF is considered a "vendor", assigned the vendor-id of
0)).

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