Subject: [dhcwg] Fwd: [MBONED] 224.0.0.12

From: Marshall Eubanks <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 23:36:17 -0400

I am posting this here to see if anyone here can shed light on this.

Regards
Marshall

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> From: Marshall Eubanks <[email-masked]>
> Date: May 23, 2009 3:14:10 PM EDT
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: [MBONED] 224.0.0.12
>
> In the IANA list
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/multicast-addresses/
>
> 224.0.0.12 is listed as
>
> 224.0.0.12 DHCP Server / Relay Agent [RFC1884]
>
> This address is manifestly not assigned in RFC 1884 (which deals  
> with IPv6), and a search on my part reveals only
> that DHCP-AGENTS.MCAST.NET resolves to 224.0.0.12
>
> Does anyone know what, if anything, this address is really used for,  
> and on what authority ?
>
> My suspicion at present is that this may be a lame delegation.
>
> Regards
> Marshall
>
> P.S. Bob Hinden says
>
>> After doing some searches, it looks like the 224.0.0.12 multicast  
>> was defined in a draft "Extensions to DHCP for Roaming Users"  
>> <draft-mukherjee-dhc-dhcproam-00.txt>.  This appears to be where  
>> the incorrect reference is.
>>
>> The next version of that draft -01 does not have the definition.
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