On 14/11/12 16:24, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Please, let's not OD on DHCP in this thread: while I was making a point
> about DHCP, I was really making a more general point about robustness in
> homenet, and how to judge various proposals, more than specifically
> attacking recursive DHCP-PD as a concept.
>
> Similarly, I think as another goal we have to accept easy debuggability
> as a goal. We need to know if a router is expected to function, and you
> should be able to easily see if the router is functioning *and* if can
> talk to its border routers and the rest of the Internet. One of the
> things I like about CeroWrt is that I can *always* talk to the router
> and from there I have a chance to figure out if it is able to talk to
> the rest of the home network, and the world (e.g. by seeing that I've
> got an IPv6 network delegation). Today, since we have to presume that
> you need a IPv4 address, this implies running a DHCP server on each
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> router: in the long run, it's less than clear to me that this is
> desirable. But one way or the other, I've got to be able to connect and
> talk to the router to be able to debug it, preferably from both upstream
> and downstream directions. The CeroWrt router I'm debugging doesn't
> "fate share" with other routers to the point that you have no place to
> stand initially.
>
>
I agree with this, except the underlined section: DHCP-relay is a
standard technique for DHCPv4.
Simon.
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