[dhcwg] DHCP over ATM

["Jim Rainville" <[e-mail]>]

Hi - 
 
I know DHCP was designed to work over a broadcast media but I need to do
dynamic IP allocation over an ATM network. I have bought an off the
shelf DHCP implementation that does not support this but the
modifications should be fairly straight forward. My plan is to use a
predefined vpi/vci for an end device to send its DHCP request. The DHCP
server will know this is a DHCP request because of the vpi/vci it came
in on. The server will also know how to route it back to the end device
because it will know which physical interface it came in on. My question
is this: Is there a standards defined vpi/vci to do this? Right now my
company is making the end device as well as the server but we may have
to work with third party vendors in the future so a standard vpi/vci
would be nice.
 
Thanks.
Jim