Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:
    > On Jul 4, 2013, at 11:42 AM, mike <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> As far as I can tell now, it would just be a race in the multihoming
    >> situation, right?  Pretty much whichever DHCP server responded first
    >> (or their relay) would win which could cause some inconsistency for
    >> configuration that is "shared". DNS, for example, might give different
    >> results if, say, one of my upstream providers answered queries
    >> differently than another because one has, say, a service to do split
    >> horizon DNS to fake up names for my home and the other doesn't. Or if
    >> you hate that example, there have got to be dozens of others in the
    >> kitchen sink of DHCP options.

    > Work is being done on this in the MIF working group at the moment; we
    > believe the problem is tractable.  To future-proof against work that
    > has not yet completed there, the right thing for homenet to do is make
    > sure that the information is tagged as to its source, and not just
    > dumped into a pot and mixed together.

To the extent that one sees two DHCP servers because one has two interfaces,
MIF has some solutions.

Simply looking at Figure 2 of arch-08, one sees that each hosts can see two
DHCP servers on the two CERs, and none of the hosts has multiple interfaces.

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