Subject: RE: [dhcwg] dhc wg last call on "DHCP Relay AgentAssignmentNotification Option"

From: "Bernie Volz \(volz\)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:40:01 -0400

That's what the DHCPv6 Lease Query we're working on drafting will solve
- the relay will be able to query the server for the client information
if it reboots.

- Bernie 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Narten [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:33 PM
> To: Bernie Volz (volz)
> Cc: [email-masked]; Stig Venaas; Ralph Droms (rdroms)
> Subject: Re: [dhcwg] dhc wg last call on "DHCP Relay 
> AgentAssignmentNotification Option" 
> 
> > It is 100% reliable in the sense that if the relay doesn't get the
> > message, how would the client? Thus, the relay has at least as good
> > information as the client (and in some cases, perhaps 
> better since the
> > message could always be lost between the relay and client).
> 
> Makes sense.
> 
> But, isn't one of the problems (if I recall from what is done in IPv4)
> that relay agents can reboot and lose all their state? What happens
> then? How does the relay recover? Is this extension going to be used
> to help in that case too?
> 
> Thomas
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