Re: [dhcwg] Am I missing something?

Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com> Tue, 22 January 2002 01:36 UTC

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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 20:27:04 -0500
From: Jim Bound <seamus@bit-net.com>
To: Ralph Droms <rdroms@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Am I missing something?
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Ralph,

I believe the IETF wants to move to SLP for this.  I think we need to
check.  I just don't want to build competing functions.  If we do it fine
but I think this requires some discussions iwth SLP folks too. 


/jim


On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Ralph Droms wrote:

> We've taken an "on-demand" approach to adding options to DHCPv6 - that is, 
> as options are requested, we've added them.  There hasn't been any 
> intentional oversight; to avoid carrying forward unnecessary options (e.g., 
> "Impress server"), we've simply started with a clean (or almost clean) 
> slate.  'bootfile' and 'TFTP server' seem like good candidates for 
> inclusion in DHCPv6.
> 
> For WG discussion - should the 'bootfile' and 'TFTP server' options be 
> carried over verbatim to DHCPv6 or are there changes that should be made?
> 
> - Ralph
> 
> At 12:22 AM 1/21/2002 +0000, Michael Johnston wrote:
> >There is no bootfile or TFTP server information in the DHCPv6 
> >draft.  Maybe this is intentional.  Is there another mechanism that is to 
> >be used by network boot clients to locate image servers and download images?
> >
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