Pekka - In theory, I agree. In practice, it's early enough to make a change before we have extensive deployments and the lack of backward compatibility only affects a few deployments, where a host requesting HCB would be satisfied with and ICB response. So, I don't think backward compatibility is as important as improving the protocol.
- Ralph On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:29 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Ralph Droms wrote: > > 2) Ability for a host to get all desired and available DHCP > > configuration with a single DHCP message exchange > > - if a host wants HCB, it sends an HCB request (Solicit) and receives > > HCB and/or ICB replies > > It would be even better to keep backward compatibility, i.e., not > require extensions to ICB-only DHCP servers to support Solicits. > Let's face it, those extensions always take time to specify, code and > deploy, the admins will have to wait for new versions, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
