RE: [dhcwg] Conflicting information regarding DHCP options 82 and 83.

["Woundy, Richard" <[e-mail]>]

IANA seems to be a little more confused than we realize.

Looking at http://www.iana.org/assignments/bootp-dhcp-parameters, I see:

   82      Agent Circuit ID         N    Agent Circuit ID
   83      Agent Remote ID          N    Agent Remote ID
   84      Agent Subnet Mask        N    Agent Subnet Mask

And then later on the same page:

DHCP Agent Sub-Option Codes  per [RFC3046]

Code    Sub-Option Description                 Reference
-----   -----------------------                ---------
   1    Agent Circuit ID Sub-option            [RFC3046]
   2    Agent Remote ID Sub-option             [RFC3046]
   3    Sub-option 3 is reserved and should      [Droms]
        not be assigned at this time;
        proprietary and incompatible usages
        of this sub-option value have been
        seen limited deployment.
   4    DOCSIS Device Class Suboption          [RFC3256]

It appears that IANA assigned three DHCP option codes (82-84) when only one
DHCP option code was assigned in RFC 3046 (82).

Note that an earlier draft of RFC 3046 had a third suboption, "Agent Subnet
Mask Sub-option", that was removed prior to RFC publication -- this is why
suboption 3 is "reserved". That's why I think option 84 should be part of
this IANA cleanup.

-- Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Kostur, Andre [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:53 AM
To: 'Van Aken Dirk'; '[e-mail]'
Cc: Dedecker Hans; Dekeyser Miek
Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Conflicting information regarding DHCP options 82 and
83.


I wonder if 83 was previously mentioned in a draft somewhere.  However, RFC
3046 is authoritative on this matter, and option 82 is the one to look at.
82 currently has 2 defined sub-options (and I know of 2 or 3 more that are
currently in draft)
-----Original Message----- 
From: Van Aken Dirk [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 1:27 AM 
To: '[e-mail]' 
Cc: Dedecker Hans; Dekeyser Miek 
Subject: [dhcwg] Conflicting information regarding DHCP options 82 and 
83. 


Hello DHCP Working Group, 
I have some conflicting information regarding the DHCP options defined 
below. i.e. On the IANA bootp-dhcp parameter list ( 
http://www.iana.org/assignments/bootp-dhcp-parameters ) I see the following 
options: 
   82      Agent Circuit ID         N    Agent Circuit ID 
   83      Agent Remote ID          N    Agent Remote ID 
On the other hand RFC3046 mentions the following": 
>>>> 
2.0 Relay Agent Information Option 
   This document defines a new DHCP Option called the Relay Agent 
   Information Option.  It is a "container" option for specific agent- 
   supplied sub-options.  The format of the Relay Agent Information 
   option is: 
          Code   Len     Agent Information Field 
         +------+------+------+------+------+------+--...-+------+ 
         |  82  |   N  |  i1  |  i2  |  i3  |  i4  |      |  iN  | 
         +------+------+------+------+------+------+--...-+------+ 
   The length N gives the total number of octets in the Agent 
   Information Field.  The Agent Information field consists of a 
   sequence of SubOpt/Length/Value tuples for each sub-option, encoded 
   in the following manner: 
          SubOpt  Len     Sub-option Value 
         +------+------+------+------+------+------+--...-+------+ 
         |  1   |   N  |  s1  |  s2  |  s3  |  s4  |      |  sN  | 
         +------+------+------+------+------+------+--...-+------+ 
          SubOpt  Len     Sub-option Value 
         +------+------+------+------+------+------+--...-+------+ 
         |  2   |   N  |  i1  |  i2  |  i3  |  i4  |      |  iN  | 
         +------+------+------+------+------+------+--...-+------+ 
   No "pad" sub-option is defined, and the Information field shall NOT 
   be terminated with a 255 sub-option.  The length N of the DHCP Agent 
   Information Option shall include all bytes of the sub-option 
   code/length/value tuples.  Since at least one sub-option must be 
   defined, the minimum Relay Agent Information length is two (2).  The 
   length N of the sub-options shall be the number of octets in only 
   that sub-option's value field.  A sub-option length may be zero.  The 
   sub-options need not appear in sub-option code order. 
   The initial assignment of DHCP Relay Agent Sub-options is as follows: 
                 DHCP Agent              Sub-Option Description 
                 Sub-option Code 
                 ---------------         ---------------------- 
                     1                   Agent Circuit ID Sub-option 
                     2                   Agent Remote ID Sub-option 
>>>> 
So I wonder now if DHCP option 82 refers to the DHCP Relay Information 
option for which there are defined two sub-options (1: Agent Circuit ID 
Sub-option and 2:                Agent Remote ID Sub-option"). 
Or do I misunderstand something here ? 
Thanks in advance - Dirk 


Dirk Van Aken                              THOMSON multimedia Broadband 
Belgium NV 
System Architect                           Prins Boudewijnlaan 47, 
Tel. : [phone]                        2650 Edegem 
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