Re: [Geopriv] Confirmation of GEOPRIV IETF 68 Working Group Hums

Ralph Droms <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general,gmane.ietf.geopriv
Message-ID <C24E7731.414BA%[email protected]>
Huh?  DHCP is carried in UDP and IP.  There is a little funkiness in the
DHCPv4 transport, which we wouldn't have need if IPv4 link-local addresses
had been defined when RFC 2131 was published.  DHCPv6 uses link-local
addresses and garden-variety IPv6.

- Ralph


On 4/20/07 1:48 PM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[email protected]> wrote:

>  
> 
>> From: David W. Hankins [mailto:[email protected]]
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:38:40PM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:
>>> DHCP is a layer 3 technology that talks directly to layer 2.
>> 
>> DHCP is a technology that dynamically configures hosts.
> 
> That's not the point, the point here is that DHCP is not an Internet protocol.
> It is an IETF protocol but not an Internet protocol. It does not layer on the
> IP stack.
> 
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