>>>>> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:19:35 -0600,
>>>>> "Bernie Volz (EUD)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The All_DHCP_Servers is not a requirement to make the protocol
> work. It is usable in two cases:
> - For Information-Request messages to avoid the need for
> relays. But, the All_DHCP_Agents is usable with relays.
> - For auto-configuration of relays - if a relay doesn't have a
> configured DHCP server to forward packets to, it can forward them
> to the ALL_DHCP_Servers address.
That's true. However, "relay does have a configured DHCP server" is a
strong assumption (especially in a large scale network), DHCPv6 quite
relies on multicast (whose scope is larger than multicast).
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List
IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng
FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng
Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--------------------------------------------------------------------
