Re: [dhcwg] Implementation problem

Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com> Sat, 22 September 2001 03:56 UTC

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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 23:55:09 -0400
From: Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com>
To: "Guja, ArturX" <ArturX.Guja@intel.com>
Cc: "Dhcwg (E-mail)" <dhcwg@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Implementation problem
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We have gone back and forth on this.  I am assuming we are now at the
state where you use it as-is?  I believe that was consensus of last round?
If we don't do this it gets too complicated to finish this spec for last
call.  In the future we can extend address types and scenarios.  


/jim


On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Guja, ArturX wrote:

> Can a client get ANY address from the available pools, 
> or does it only get a prefix to be filled with its interface identifier?
> 
> Or, is it the server's duty to make sure, that the addresses passed
> to the client are of the form:
> prefix + interface ID
> If so, the server could take the interface ID of the client from the
> client's
> link local address (if it still gets it, I'm not sure after all the changes
> here).
> 
> Does the client check the addresses' structure, or does it assign those
> addresses to its interfaces on an "AS IS" principle?
> 
> Artur G.
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