Re: [v6ops] How do you solve 3GPP issue if neither operator nor handset supports PD?

[Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>]

>None of that matters over PPP.
>It's a trivial request/response protocol in that case.
>No relays required if all the data comes from radius data as is often the
>case for BMS (DSL, PPPoE).

DHCP is far from trivial. There are all kinds of issues. Having to repopulate
FIB entries in a magic ways after a reboot of a router because the
downstream router believes it still has a valid lease.

Alternativly, we can leave it to the client to deal with that. Requiring the
client to have a reliable link state detector. Which can fail because people
relay packets in weird ways.

Another example is when user swaps CPEs and the new CPE doesn't get a lease
because the lease is still assigned to the old CPE.

Client side, there is a lot of protocol that is specified that is hardly used.