On Sep 27, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Tom Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:

> No I have no intention of seeking another meeting slot for this little 
> document. But I do ask whether people can approve it in principle, so we can 
> put through the necessary Standards Action to get the DHCP/DHCPv6 options in 
> place.
> 
> Again, this is about DHCP options to tell a router where to find two 
> management entities, the SYSLOG Collector and the SNMP Notification Receiver, 
> for use primarily in configuring mobile backhaul.

<no hats>

I must admit to being a little confused by this draft / the use case.

The draft says:
 "The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCPv4 [RFC2131] and DHCPv6
   [RFC3315]) is a relevant tool for this purpose.  It provides a number
   of existing options to allow a node to acquire its configuration file
   and to locate key servers in the network. "

Presumably the node connects to $something and downloads a (node specific) 
config file -- why is the SYSLOG and SNMP devices not simply defined in the 
config file? 

Or, is the intent that the nodes will all download the *same* config file, and 
then use DHCP options to provide the node specific bits?

If the latter, is [DNS, Hostname, SYSLOG, SNMP] the only things that differ 
between nodes? What about interface names / addresses / ssh keys / etc? 
I'm so not a mobile operator, so maybe I'm just not understanding what sorts of 
things these nodes do and so what sort of node specific config they need.

I'm not disagreeing with the concept, I'm more intrigued…

</no hats>
W



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