Re: [dhcwg] DHCPv6 message type

[Bud Millwood <budm at weird-solutions.com>]

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Damien Neil wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2008, at 12:45 AM, Bud Millwood wrote:
> > We have a command-line client that can log into our server and make
> > changes to
> > the running system. Today this client sends a non-standard message
> > to the
> > DHCP server port to query the server for information about how to
> > connect to
> > the server as well as what basic capabilities (aka other services)
> > can be
> > accessed.
>
> It seems to me that an Information-Request message would work well for
> this purpose.

   A server MUST discard any Solicit, Confirm, Rebind or
   Information-request messages it receives with a unicast destination
   address.

That sentence could be a show stopper. Also, it seems like we'd be overloading 
the semantics of info-req, if not the syntax. And I think, in the past with 
DHCP, most of the times we've overloaded the semantics of something it all 
just went to h*ll (v4 siaddr comes to mind). :)

- Bud
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