RE: [dhcwg] RFC2131 - option multiple times - which ones ?

"Bernie Volz" <volz@cisco.com> Thu, 10 March 2005 02:49 UTC

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From: Bernie Volz <volz@cisco.com>
To: "'David W. Hankins'" <David_Hankins@isc.org>
Subject: RE: [dhcwg] RFC2131 - option multiple times - which ones ?
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:47:25 -0500
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David:

You're probably correct, but where is this stated? The text in RFC 3046
implies that there can only be one relay agent option. Section 2.1.1 of RFC
3046 indicates that only one relay agent option may be added. And, RFC 3396
doesn't mention relay agent option as being special.

- Bernie 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David W. Hankins [mailto:David_Hankins@isc.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:22 PM
> To: Bernie Volz
> Cc: 'Grubmair Peter'; 'Dhcwg'
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] RFC2131 - option multiple times - which ones ?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:45:39PM -0500, Bernie Volz wrote:
> > The idea was that MAYBE in the future, options might be 
> defined that can
> > appear multiple times and would not be concatented, but 
> that hasn't been the
> > case.
> 
> except for the relay agent option, which can appear multiple 
> times and not
> be concatenated.  it's also a special case in other ways, 
> which is why it
> can get away with that.
> 
> -- 
> David W. Hankins		"If you don't do it right the 
> first time,
> Operations Engineer			you'll just have to do 
> it again."
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins
> 

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