Re: recommendation on DHCP6 source port numbers

David Farmer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.dhc
Message-ID <CAN-Dau0nnGMxUFhGOrquN0ro18FbDLS9j5Oz4sDg-=70V57mnA@mail.gmail.com>
Substitute "DHCP messages" for traffic in the last paragraph.

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:24 AM David Farmer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would this text clarify things?
>
> Clients receive DHCP messages on UDP (destination) port 546.  Servers and
> relay agents receive DHCP messages on UDP (destination) port 547.
>
> Clients, servers, and relay agents MAY send DHCP messages from any UDP
> (source) port they are allowed to use, including their designated
> destination ports. Nevertheless, regardless of the source port the client
> uses, the server or relay agent MUST send traffic to the designated
> destination port of the client. And vice versa, regardless of the source
> port used by the server or relay agent, the client MUST send traffic to the
> designated destination port of the server or relay agent.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 10:03 AM Ole Troan <otroan=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Bernie,
>>
>> > DHCPv6 has been successfully deployed and this is the first I recall of
>> this kind of discussion/issue.
>> > You would likely also invalidate a lot of implementations with such a
>> change, which is not really in line with advancing this to Full Standard.
>>
>> It’s a lot more important to have the specification clear and
>> unambiguous. I think it has been shown that it isn’t.
>> Happy with whatever solution there is consensus for, but the ambiguity
>> has to be resolved I think.
>>
>> O.
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