On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:26 AM 10/30/14, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 30, 2014, at 9:15 AM, Ole Troan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> the "flow-through" model as far as I can recall suffers from DHCP's general 
>> problem of dealing with multiple sources of information (think multihoming 
>> with separate CE routers), in addition you either need to build what's 
>> essentially a spanning tree of DHCP relays or you need some mechanism to 
>> discover the set of DHCP server(s). certainly do-able, but not quite out of 
>> the box.
> 
> Actually it doesn't suffer from this problem.   You just wind up getting a 
> prefix delegation per edge router, and when you get a delegation, you add 
> that edge router to the list of routers to which you will relay downstream 
> prefix delegation requests.   You do not need spanning tree because if you 
> reach the same router through two different paths, you will just get the same 
> delegation twice per DUID/IAID.

There may be a couple of areas where some small amount of protocol 
specification work would be required for the flow-through model:

* the requesting router would have to know to accept delegated prefixes from 
multiple delegating routers rather than just choosing one delegating router
* either each server would have to have its own set of relay agents, or a 
single set of relay agents would have to be provisioned dynamically with the 
list of delegating routers

- Ralph

> 
> The reason homenet didn't go with this solution is essentially that HNCP has 
> a better feature set and is easier to make work in a homenet environment.
> 
> (To be clear, I am just explaining the prefix delegation model.   If Anima 
> doesn't want to do it that way, that's fine with me, just as it's fine with 
> me that homenet went with HNCP.)
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