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RE: [dhcwg] "client identifier" in server replies

narasimha.nelakuditi@nokia.com Thu, 10 July 2003 13:09 UTC

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Subject: RE: [dhcwg] "client identifier" in server replies
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Eventhough, 'xids' are same, 'client id' should be different for clients of same subnet. So, if server replies with 'client id' also, clients will come to know which response is for them by looking at 'client id'. 

regards,
swamy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Thamer Al-Harbash [mailto:tmh@whitefang.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 6:13 PM
> To: Nelakuditi Narasimha (NET/Bangalore)
> Cc: budm@weird-solutions.com; mellon@nominum.com; dhcwg@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: [dhcwg] "client identifier" in server replies
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 narasimha.nelakuditi@nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > After discussing several alternatives to solve the problem, servers
> > including "client id" field in their replies seems to be the clean
> > solution to it.
> > If this is agreed upon, next thing is how to fix this in 
> the protocol??
> 
> I think Mr. Lemon already mentioned this, but if he didn't, how
> does this solve the problem of two DHCP DISCOVER messages being
> sent out from two clients with the same xid? How does the server
> differentiate between them?
> 
> -- 
> Thamer Al-Harbash
> 

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