Re: [dhcwg] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-14.txt> (Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options) to Best Current Practice

[Sten Carlsen <[e-mail]>]

One question for my information, pls. see below:

On 10/10/13 15:41, Ted Lemon wrote:
> DHCP does all the queries for you at the same time and hands you a
> single packet with all the information you need to contact all the
> services offered by DHCP. This can be expected to result in many fewer
> packet round trips, and consequently much less power spent. This is a
> significant feature; getting rid of it in order to make life a little
> more convenient for operators who do not have to deal with these
> constraints is a poor value proposition for the protocol as a whole.
Would the DHCP-server do a fresh lookup for every request and every
renewal? If it does, it will allow the device to follow changes in the
network though with a delay of a lease time.

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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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