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RE: [dhcwg] Changes to remove "client-link-local-address" from th e DHCPv6 header

"Bernie Volz (EUD)" <Bernie.Volz@am1.ericsson.se> Thu, 30 August 2001 16:57 UTC

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From: "Bernie Volz (EUD)" <Bernie.Volz@am1.ericsson.se>
To: "'Ted Lemon'" <mellon@nominum.com>
Cc: "'Ralph Droms'" <rdroms@cisco.com>, dhcwg@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [dhcwg] Changes to remove "client-link-local-address" from th e DHCPv6 header
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It does seem to me, based on the DHCPv4 RFC3046 description, that a circuit ID
option would work just fine.

- Bernie

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Lemon [mailto:mellon@nominum.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 12:22 PM
To: Bernie Volz (EUD)
Cc: 'Ralph Droms'; dhcwg@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Changes to remove "client-link-local-address" from
th e DHCPv6 header 



> For 2, the relay can either use 3 or provide some other means of
> identifying this information. It may not be an address - it could
> just be an interface id or some other opaque info. So, I suggest
> that for 2, we simply have an "Interface-ID" option which is
> whatever the relay wants it to be. The server should treat it as
> opaque and simply echo it back to the relay. If the relay doesn't
> need it (because the info in (3) is sufficient), it need not provide
> this option.

We've already got two options that handle this - the circuit ID and
the remote ID.   Do we need a third, or is the circuit ID already
serving this purpose?

			       _MelloN_

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